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An entertainment combine that prided itself as first and foremost a director’s studio, Shochiku had made the integration of antithetical approaches to filmmaking a company policy ever since the foundation of its Kamata studio and cinematic training school in 1924. The house specialty—a type of social realism called shomen-geki (tales of the ...
An introduction to the Shochiku 100 retrospective by its curator, Dick Stegewerns. This year we celebrate the centennial of Shōchiku Cinema, one of the biggest players in Japan’s film industry. Although often dubbed ‘the Shōchiku studio’, most of the time it functioned as a true conglomerate of film production, distribution and screening, with its own nation-wide chain of cinemas.
Jan 27, 2017 · The label ‘Japanese New Wave’ presents immediate problems, however. Its origins, circa 1960, can ironically be traced back to a piece of studio branding, with the debuts of three young employees at Shochiku – Nagisa Oshima, Masahiro Shinoda and Kiju Yoshida – marketed as launching the ‘Shochiku Nuberu bagu’ (a transliteration of ...
Aug 26, 2018 · Shochiku studios decided to adopt the subject matter seen in Nikkatsu and Toei films, combining it with popular techniques used in French cinema to create the Japanese New Wave. In 1959, assistant director Nagisa Oshima was finally given the opportunity to write and direct his own scripts for Shochiku, a decision that would act as a catalyst for the New Wave's success.
Shochiku offered such films as Shi-mazu’s A Brother and His Younger Sister (1939), in which a young man abandons petty office politics and carries his sister and mother off to a fresh start in China; a clod of earth clings to their plane wheel, bringing a bit of Japan to the world they are building.
Shochiku Co., Ltd. (松竹株式会社, Shōchiku Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese entertainment company. It started its business in 1895 by managing kabuki theaters in Kyoto, and in 1914, it also acquired ownership of the Kabuki-za theater in Tokyo. In 1920, Shochiku entered the film production industry and established the Kamata Film Studio.
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May 19, 2024 · This two-part retrospective offers the first New York survey of the major yet often overlooked filmmaker in more than 30 years and the largest ever assembled in North America. Presented at the Museum, Part I: The Shochiku Years gathers the best films of Shimizu’s protean and varied career with the studio from his stark, strikingly modernist ...
