'Tendency films'

[Nornes, Markus]

I don’t recall anyone using this term for films after the short period straddling 1930.

Markus


On 1/18/10 8:23 AM, "mccaskem at georgetown.edu" <mccaskem at georgetown.edu> wrote:

It seems most likely that you are correct, according to standard Japanese
mainstream dictionary references. It's possible that the term "keikou eiga" was
revived later, but if so these references don't seem to be aware of that.

The information in the following entry from the Sanseido Daijirin dictionary is
similar to that in other large Japanese dictionaries.

三省堂 大辞林

http://www.weblio.jp/content/傾向映画

【傾向映画】
〔ドイツ語 Tendenzfilmの訳〕1920年代後半の世界大不況期を中心に、商業映画の中
で社会の矛盾を訴える内容のプロレタリア映画。日本での代表作は鈴木重吉「何が彼女
をさうさせたか」など。

[Free Translation]

Keikou eiga is a Japanese translation of the German term "Tendenzfilm."

Keikoueiga were proletarian films (puroretaria eiga),  made mainly during the
time of the Great Worldwide Depression in the latter half of the 1920s. They
were commercially made films whose content was critical of the contradictions
in society. A typical Japanese film of this type was Suzuki Yoshishige's "Nani ga
kano jo o sou saseta ka."


There's also an interesting brief online piece from 2007 in Japanese on
"Mizoguchi Kenji and His Times (2) [Expressionism and Keikou eiga],"
referencing a few films by Mizoguchi and others in Japan and Europe, but the
latest film is from 1935.
http://www.planetplusone.com/memberonly/2_1.html

I hope these snippets may be help a little.

Michael McCaskey
Georgetown University

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