costume play

Japanese: costume play(英語表記)costumeplay
costume play

…In contrast to “modern dramas,” period dramas are a collective term for plays, films, and television dramas that are based on past “periods” from the Heian period to around the time of the Meiji Restoration. The English term “costume play” is often used as an equivalent translation, since it features characters dressed in costumes from that “period.” Period films are a genre unique to Japanese cinema, and tracing their origins and history is the same as tracing the history of Japanese cinema. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "costume play" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…〈現代劇〉に対して,平安時代から明治維新前後までの過去の〈時代〉を題材にした演劇,映画,テレビドラマなどを総称して時代劇という。その〈時代〉の衣装を着た人物が登場するという意味で英語の〈コスチューム・プレーcostume play〉という呼称がこれに相当する訳語として使われる場合が多い。時代劇映画は日本映画独特のジャンルで,その起源と歴史をたどることは,そのまま日本映画史をたどることになろう。…

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