Female impersonator film

Japanese: 女形映画 - おんながたえいが
Female impersonator film

...Also, Tanaka Eizo, who had earlier shown a fresh film technique in the Shinpa film The Living Corpse, produced a groundbreaking film in 1947 with Kyoya Erimise, depicting the fall of a long-established store in Tokyo's downtown area, vividly depicting the lives and desires of the Japanese people, and continued this approach in the following year with Skull Dance. The former still used female roles, but it is said to be the last female role film in Japan, and the latter featured Okada Yoshiko and Natsukawa Shizue (later Shizue), who would later become star actresses. In this way, Nikkatsu moved from the era of "motion pictures" to the era of "cinema." ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "female impersonator films" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また,先に新派《生ける屍》で新鮮な映画手法を見せた田中栄三が,22年,東京下町の老舗の没落を描いた《京屋襟店(えりみせ)》によって,日本人の生活と欲望をなまなましく表現した画期的な映画作品を出現させ,その姿勢を翌年の《髑髏(どくろ)の舞》でも貫いた。前者はまだ女形を使っているが,日本でほとんど最後の女形映画といわれ,後者にはやがてスター女優となる岡田嘉子,夏川静江(のち静枝)が出演している。こうして日活は,〈活動写真〉の時代から〈映画〉の時代へ入っていく。…

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