<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I can't say whether this adds to Markus' suggestion of Makino Mamoru, but the hard examples of censorship would come from imported foreign films. I think I recall that in 'World-wide influences of the cinema; a study of official censorship and the international cultural aspects of motion pictures', HARLEY, 1940, there's a list of cuts by censors in Japan by type but I don't remember whether kissing is a specific category.</DIV>
<DIV>Roger</DIV></td></tr></table><br>