전시기 일본의 ‘오락영화’는 국책과 대립하였나?

Abstract

Among the numerous films made in wartime Japan, there were ‘entertainment films’ that did not find much propaganda messages, and existing studies have not paid much attention on these. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how entertainment films were accepted and recognized in Japan during the wartime period. Existing studies have judged that watching entertainment movies during wartime was a kind of ‘resistance’ of the common people against the bureaucracy-led control of movies. In order to critically examine this research trend, this thesis examined whether entertainment was unconditionally hostile and excluded, and how the act of watching and making entertainment movies was perceived in wartime Japan. At that time, the scope of expression was reduced due to the strengthening of censorship and control, but on the other hand, there were various movements and booms to expand the national entertainment. This study found that there were many discourses which entertainment and national policy were to be harmonized rather than opposed to each other. In the space of wartime Japan, entertainment and entertainment films had their own reasons for existence.