Film Control Board

Japanese: 映画統制委員会 - えいがとうせいいいんかい
Film Control Board

...In other words, the golden age of Japanese cinema after talkies coincided perfectly with the war years. As the war progressed, censorship and other forms of film control were strengthened, and in 1934 the Film Control Committee was created under the supervision of the Prime Minister. The following year, 1935, the Greater Japan Film Association was established under this committee as a joint government-private national cooperation organization. The association's journal, Japanese Film (May 1938 issue), stated, "In any case, because of the enormous power that film possesses, it must be actively mobilized to the forefront as part of ideological policy in order to strengthen the ideological unity of the people.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the Film Control Board is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…つまり,トーキー以後の日本映画の黄金期はぴったり戦争の時代に重なるといってよい。戦争の進展とともに検閲などの映画統制は強化され,1934年には総理大臣監督下の映画統制委員会がつくられて,翌35年,それのもとで官民合同の国家協力機関,大日本映画協会が設立された。同協会の機関誌《日本映画》(1938年5月号)には,〈とにかく映画は,その持つ威力の絶大なる故に,国民の思想的団結の強化のために,思想政策の一翼として,最前線に積極的に動員されなければならない。…

※「映画統制委員会」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。

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