「활동사진필름검열규칙」의 시행과 ‘경찰적 견해’의 이중검열에 관한 고찰

Abstract

Censorship on movies in Chosun by the Japanese Empire was enforced consistently on the purpose of harmony between Japan and Chosun as well as ‘the special circumstances in Chosun’. What it means of ‘the special circumstances in Chosun’ should be the ruling ideology of the Japanese Empire in Chosun, where was full of anti-Japanese spirit and resistance against their colonial rule. Even though the censorship system on movies had nothing difference from the one for Japan in view of the outward appearance, the censorship on movies in Chosun was much severer due to that special circumstances. This was because it had to pass through another censorship so called as ‘point of view as the police’ together with the enacted censorship system on movies. In Chosun, there were so many occasions to be cut or to be banned by a point of view as the police even for movies once passed through censorship. In Chosun, movies were controlled strictly without any principles by such double censorship system on movies for that reason of ‘special circumstances in Chosun’. This acted also as a tremendous problem detrimental to development of movies in Chosun. What the institutionalization of censorship on movies had been regularized during the Japanese colonial rule should have been since 1926 when the censorship regulation on motion picture film had been enforced. By enforcement of this regulation, a systematic censorship on movies had been in operation on a national scale. The reason why the Japanese Empire had enforced this regulation was for a contribution to the convenience of film screening. However, we can see that they aimed mainly rather to control movies through censorship than it. Especially, the Japanese Government General of Chosun maintained the public peace and order in Chosun through this regulation and also maximized to use movies for their colonial rule as it increased the strictness of censorship by the point of view as the police. In this study, we examined the double structure in control of movies during the period of Japanese colonial rule by research of censorship conditions under the Censorship Regulation on Motion Picture Films and control of movies by ‘point of view as the police’.