...Because this film is permeated with socialist ideology, which was considered a "dangerous idea" at the time, it was the first to be called an "ideological film" or a "tendency film." However, the term "tendency film" was not truly adopted by journalism until director Uchida Tomu's film "Living Doll" (1929), a film adaptation of a newspaper serial novel by proletarian writer Kataoka Teppei (1894-1944), became a hit. Uchida Tomu later reflected that the film's left-wing ideology was merely a formality that followed the trend of the times, but the film exposed the enormous mechanisms and cruelty of capitalist society by depicting the pitiful figure of an ambitious young man who came to Tokyo from the countryside and whose philosophy of life was calculating self-succession and career advancement, being toyed with like a living doll. *Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Living Doll" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…この映画が,当時〈危険思想〉といわれた社会主義的イデオロギーにつらぬかれているということから,初めて〈イデオロギー映画〉あるいは〈傾向映画〉と呼ばれた。しかし,〈傾向映画〉ということばが真にジャーナリズムに乗るのは,プロレタリア作家,片岡鉄兵(1894‐1944)の新聞連載小説を映画化した内田吐夢監督の《生ける人形》(1929)がヒットしてからである。左翼思想といっても時流に乗った形式的なものであったと内田吐夢はのちに回顧しているが,地方から東京へ出てきて打算的な立身出世主義を処世哲学とする野心的な1人の青年が,生きている人形のように翻弄(ほんろう)される無残な姿を描いて,資本主義社会の巨大なからくりと冷酷さをあばいた映画であった。… ※「《生ける人形》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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