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Shōshimin-eiga (小市民映画),^[1] literally "petty bourgeois film" or "lower middle class film",^[2] is a genre of Japanese realist films which focus on the everyday lives of ordinary or middle class people.^[3]^[4]^[5] An alternate term for the shōshimin-eiga is the pseudo-Japanese word shomin-geki, literally "common people drama",^[2] which had been invented by Western film scholars.^[1] The term shōshimin-eiga as a definition of a specifically Japanese film genre presumably first appeared in 1932 in articles by critics Yoshio Ikeda and Ichiro Ueno.^[6]

Themes

Film historians Joseph L. Anderson and Donald Richie define the shōshimin-eiga (addressing it as shomin-geki) as "[e]ssentially a film about proletarian or lower-middle-class life, about the sometimes humorous, sometimes bitter relations within the family, about the struggle for existence, [...] the kind of film many Japanese think of as being about 'you and me'."^[7]

In her book Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano sees the shōshimin-eiga depicting a "newly emerging modern subject, the salaried man, and his middle-class family", which "appealed to a broad cross-section of social classes", thereby helping to create "a modern national subject". Through their portrayal of social inequalities and capitalism's extended reach on daily life in the shape of company hierarchy, these films suggested a split between Japan's call for modernisation and the longing for the "mystic cohesion" of a "traditional" past. At the same time, the shōshimin-eiga was criticised for a lack of genuine political content especially from the political left.^[5]

History

The beginnings of the shōshimin-eiga are assigned to the Shochiku film studio and its director Yasujirō Shimazu in the 1920s.^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10] Yasujirō Ozu, a former assistant of Shimazu, and Mikio Naruse are two prominent directors considered to work primarily in the field of the shōshimin-eiga.^[3]^[4] Others include Heinosuke Gosho^[3] and Keisuke Kinoshita.^[11] Kenji Mizoguchi, although having repeatedly turned to modern subjects, the oppression of women under a patriarchical system in particular, is usually not assigned to the genre canon.^[3]

Important early (and extant) examples of the shōshimin-eiga are Shimazu's Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (1934),^[1]^[7]^[9] Ozu's Tokyo Chorus (1931) and I Was Born, But... (1932),^[1]^[5]^[9] and Gosho's Burden of Life (1935).^[1] Naruse's 1951 film Repast is often cited as having launched a post-occupation revival of the shōshimin-eiga.^[3]^[12] Gosho biographer Arthur Nolletti, Jr. regards the early 1960s as the end of the genre's golden age,^[13] with its themes moving mainly to television.^[11] Both he and film historian Catherine Russell see it sustained in works like the Tora-san series.^[11]^[14]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Shōshimin-eiga" (in Japanese). Kotobank. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Cambridge Dictionary Japanese–English". Retrieved 17 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Berra, John (2012). Directory of World Cinema: Japan2. Intellect. pp. 304–305. ISBN 9781841505510.
^ ^a ^b Russell, Catherine (2008). The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham and London: Duke University Press. p. XV. ISBN 978-0-8223-4290-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo (2008). Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 12–13, 49–50. ISBN 9780824831820.
^ Yuki, Takinami (2018). "Modernity, Shoshimin Films, and the Proletarian-Film Movement". In Choi, Jinhee (ed.). Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence. Oxford University Press. p. 139. ISBN 9780190254971.
^ ^a ^b ^c Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Japanese Film – Art & Industry. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company.
^ Miyao, Daisuke (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema. Oxford University Press. p. 111. ISBN 9780199731664.
^ ^a ^b ^c Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.
^ Bock, Audie (1985). Japanese Film Directors. Kodansha International. p. 105. ISBN 9784770012142.
^ ^a ^b ^c Nolletti Jr., Arthur (1997). "Recasting of Make Way for Tomorrow". In Desser, David (ed.). Ozu's Tokyo Story. Cambridge University Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780521484350.
^ Richie, Donald (2005). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (Revised ed.). Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International. p. 117. ISBN 978-4-7700-2995-9.
^ Nolletti Jr., Arthur (2008). The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter through Tears. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-253-34484-7.
^ Russell, Catherine (2011). Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 19. ISBN 9781441133274.

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