일제강점기하 영화통제정책의 초기형성과정에 관한 고찰

Abstract

The control on the films under the Imperialist Japan had been performed according to the code of restriction in severer condition than the other colonies such as Taiwan, Manchuria and so on across the production, distribution and promotion. The regulation like 「Regulation of Censorship on Motion Picture」as an idea of regulating on the presentation of the foreign movie had been enforced in Chosun only out of Japan and its colony countries in order to prevent the anti-Japan emotion and the Western oriented mood in peoples of Chosun. The executional process of the restriction on movie by the Chosun Government-general had been performed in steps from the restriction on the promotional theater in each province in the initial period to the political exploits by the Code of Movie from the Chosun Government-general which was identical with Japanese Movie Law. The censoring on the movie had been performed in the name of public security and popular moral in the initial stage. Especially, the dark space of the permanent establishment theater, the porno scenes, criminal, matters of ideology had been the main focus of censoring and enforcement on the theater. There was no unified organization in the nation and hard and fast regulation in the execution of such thorough censoring on the movie by the Chosun Government-general. The person in charge at the police station had engaged in the control at the position of routine controlling on the movies. The promotional production means the entertainment activities such as play, movie, magic show, musical performance etc which were performed in theater and movie hall and the Japanese traditional plays for the Japanese resident in Chosun. Consequently, the restrictions executed on the movie theaters in each province was diversified because controls on the theater and movie was in line with the controlling of such various promotional productions without the unified regulation on the specific field. This research surveys the status of controlling on movies which was performed by the regions in the beginning and the unified control procedure on the movies nationwide by the Chosun Government-general through bibliographical data issued in Chosun and Japan at that time.