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I wrote about the introduction of kissing in Japanese films in Behind the Pink Curtain, following research published in English language by Kyoko Hirano, in her book Mr Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, and Donald Richie, in an article whose title escapes me, but which is published in A Lateral View.<br>I also notice that Hirano has a book published in Japanese called Tenno to Seppun, which no doubt tackles this area.<br>see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tenno-seppun-Amerika-senryoka-kenetsu/dp/479420776X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279313661&sr=1-5<br><br>Hope these help,<br><br>Jasper<br><br><br>Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema<br>www.midnighteye.com<br><br>More details about me on http://jaspersharp.com/<br><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:11:32 -0400<br>From: sfred@bu.edu<br>To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>Subject: Question about kissing<br><br>I was just editing something I wrote and started to wonder whether it is true. I was suggesting that kissing in Japanese cinema in the early 1930s would have been the object of censorship. That is a rather vague way that I have put it but is it true in either the sense that 1.) depiction of a kiss would have triggered some attention and potential censorship based 2.) there were actual guidelines about kissing that the censors followed? <div><br></div><div>I am aware of the censorship categories at the time and have looked at a lot of print media censorship primary materials in both political and fuzoku categories. But not much about cinema (or kissing in particular). Is there some better research on this out there? I think I based my statement on anecdotal materials from people I know, and I don't think those individuals are really old or reliable enough to base this claim on!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any direction you might send me in! I don't have easy access to a Japanese language library at the moment either.</div><div><br></div><div>Sarah </div><br><br><div> <span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div>Sarah Frederick</div><div>Associate Professor of Japanese</div><div>Dept. Modern Languages </div><div> and Comparative Literature</div><div>Boston University</div><div>718 Commonwealth Avenue</div><div>402C</div><div>Boston, MA 02215</div><div>617-358-4654</div><div><a href="mailto:sfred@bu.edu">sfred@bu.edu</a></div><div><br></div></span><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"> </div><br> <br /><hr />Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/' target='_new'>Sign-up now.</a></body>
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