Question: Postwar Constitution in Japanese Film

[Aaron Gerow]

If you want to include documentaries, there is the recent The  
Constitution of Japan by John Junkerman:

http://www.cine.co.jp/kenpo/

There apparently were some films made to celebrate the original  
promulgation of the Constitution such as Joen at Shochiku and Senso  
to heiwa at Toho.

The dokuritsu pro left often made films like Wagamichi (Shindo  
Kaneto, 1974) calling for the need to protect the rights guaranteed  
in the constitution. Some comedies, like Kyosaito sosai ni eiko are  
(Aoyagi Nobuo, 1960), make fun of the results of the Constitution.  
Recent films like Bokoku no igisu participate in the debate over  
Article 9 of the Constitution.


Aaron Gerow
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Yale University

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