Question about kissing

Sarah Frederick sfred at bu.edu
Fri Jul 16 14:11:32 EDT 2010


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?

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!

Thanks for any direction you might send me in!  I don't have easy  
access to a Japanese language library at the moment either.

Sarah


Sarah Frederick
Associate Professor of Japanese
Dept. Modern Languages
    and Comparative Literature
Boston University
718 Commonwealth Avenue
402C
Boston, MA 02215
617-358-4654
sfred at bu.edu



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