植民地朝鮮の日本怪談流通に関する研究－1920年代の新聞怪談シリーズと怪談映画流通を中心として－

Abstract

This study is to review the concrete correlation between Japanese ghost stories and Chosun ghost stories in colonial Chosun. It was 1930s that ghost story became acknowledged as one genre. This study is to find out how Japanese ghost movies produced in Japan were distributed in Gyeongseong by analyzing the titles and contents of Celebrity news of 1920s in Japanese newspaper named <Keijo nippo> (1906~1945). As a result, it was found out that the ghost stories in Chosun newspaper and those in Japanese newspaper were both influenced by Japanese culture which presents ‘ghost stories are popular in summer’ with their common denominator called <Newsletter of the Japanese Government-General of Korea>. Even though, Japan was the origin country of ghost stories, Japanese people were passive with using the title ‘ghost story’. It seems like they were concerned about misunderstanding ghost stories from superstition. However, Japanese ghost story called <Yotsuya Kaidan> was released as a movie every summer and magazine advertisements of Japanese newspaper were filled with geeky title like ghost story special despite the intention of Japan. Therefore, it is indicated that ghost culture was directly distributed to public as a form of movie or book even though Japan tried to lead public culture through cultural policy.