Juvenile film

Japanese: 青春映画 - せいしゅんえいが（英語表記）juvenile film

It is not a name that exists as a clear film genre, but rather a general term for films that very vaguely depict "youth," but its origins lie in the bright "school movies" that originated from the "sports films" and "student films" that began to be made in Hollywood during the silent film era, and it refers to works that follow the lineage of a series of films about young people that are described with catchphrases such as "bright and cheerful youth." According to Yamamoto Kikuo's "The Influence of Foreign Films on Japanese Films," in Kinema Junpo (October 11, 1930 issue), in his review of Shochiku's film "The Blood of Youth is Leaping," he writes, "'College romance' is a form of cinematic drama born from early American films.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

明確な映画のジャンルとして存在する名称ではなく，きわめて漠然と〈青春〉を描いた映画の総称になっているが，その源流はサイレント時代からハリウッドでつくられはじめた〈スポーツ映画〉や〈学生映画〉に端を発した明るい〈学園もの〉で，〈青春明朗編〉といったうたい文句で形容されるような一連の若者の映画の系統をひく作品のことである。山本喜久男著《日本映画における外国映画の影響》によれば，《キネマ旬報》(1930年10月11日号)の松竹映画《青春の血は躍る》評のなかに，〈“カレッジ･ロマンス”は初期の米国映画が生んだ映画劇の一形式である。

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