Question about kissing

[Mark Nornes]

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I don't recall if the issue is covered in the detail you require, and it's not at hand at the moment, but the first stop shopping for anything on censorship is Makino Mamoru's "History of Japanese Film Censorship." (Harvard has it in your area.) Aside from its detailed history, many of the regulations are reprinted in its 500 some pages.

Markus

日本映画検閱史 /
Nihon eiga kenʼetsushi

Author:	牧野守, 1930- 牧野守著. ; Mamoru Makino
Publisher:	パンドラ : 発売現代書館, Tōkyō : Pandora : Hatsubai Gendai Shokan, 2003.


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> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:11:32 -0400
> From: sfred at bu.edu
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Question about kissing
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> 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? 
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> 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!
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> Thanks for any direction you might send me in!  I don't have easy access to a Japanese language library at the moment either.
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> Sarah 
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> Sarah Frederick
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