Toei hires again

[Aaron Gerow]

Reviving a system it stopped 38 years ago, the Toei film studio has 
announced it will again start hiring "contract trainees in artistic work" 
(geijutsushoku kenshu keiyakusha). The system, which in its heyday from 
1952 to 1965, hired young people for three years to train as filmmakers. 
Fukasaku Kinji was one of the products of this system. The current call 
for applicants (https://www2.toei.co.jp/jinji/about.html) covers three 
fields of training: producer, assistant director, and screenwriter. 
Applicants have to submit an essay as part of their packet (those wanting 
to be directors have to write about "What should a film director be?").

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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