An alternate term for the shōshimin-eiga is the pseudo-Japanese word shomin-geki, literally "common people drama", which had been invented by Western...

Tokyo. The film is notable in the Kurosawa canon as the director's only shomin-geki, and because of a fourth wall-breaking scene at the climax. It is in...

contemporary setting plays of bunraku and kabuki Cinema of Japan Shomin-geki Jidai-geki Thornton, S. A. (2015-03-26). The Japanese Period Film: A Critical...

with her as a surrogate wife and never marrying. It is considered a Shomin-geki film for its depiction of ordinary people. Tokyo Story was released on...

postwar Japan. Late Spring belongs to the type of Japanese cinema known as shomin-geki, a genre that deals with the ordinary daily lives of working class and...

Other names James Maki Occupation(s) Film director, screenwriter Years active 1929–1963 Movement Shomin-geki Japanese name Hiragana おづ やすじろう Katakana オヅ ヤスジロウ...

With the reopening of its Kamata studios, Shochiku also introduced the shomin-geki genre, with stories reflecting the lives of the lower-middle urban classes...

time, Gosho's work in the 1960s alternated mostly between melodrama and shomin-geki, sometimes not exceeding well-made commercial entertainment. Notable...

Gosho, Hiroshi Shimizu and Torajirō Saitō and Shintarō Kido produced Shomin-geki (films about ordinary folks, including company employees who were part...