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Motion Picture Chronology— 1936
January : The first theatre in Japan to specialize in showing of news pictures was opened in the
basement of the Nippon Gekijo, called the Daiichi Chika Gekijo. This news theatre has a seating capacity for 300, charges 20 sen admission, and runs 9 times a day a program requiring one hour for each showing.
The Contemporary Play Studio of the Shochiku Kinema was removed from Kamata to its new site in Ofuna.
February : Shochiku Ofuna Haiyu Gakko (the Shochiku’s Ofuna School of Acting) was opened.
Dr. Arnold Fanck arrived in Japan.
Nippon Motion Picture Co. (Nikkatsu) by paying out ¥ 200,000 discharged 167 mu¬ sicians and “interpreters”.
The films “Jinsei Gekijo” (The Theatre of Life) and “ Arigato-San ” (Mr. Thank You) were released.
March : The Kyokuto Eiga Kabushiki Kaisha was established.
Shochiku, through the courtesy of the Japan Economic Mission to Siam, exported the films “Arigato-San” (Mr. Thank You), “Ano Michi, Kono Michi” (This Way and That Way) and “Hanayome Kurabe” (A Bride Contest) to that country.
Dai Nippon Eiga Kyokai advocated a movement for introducing compulsory showing of documentary films in the theatres, and proposed a prize contest for documentary films and also a plan for ten days’ showing.
All the theatres in Japan expressed opposition to the proposal for ten days’ showing.
News Cameraman Kyokai (The News Cameramen’s Association) was organized.
The films “Daigaku Yoitoko” (Great is College!) and “Jonetsu no Shijin Takuboku” (Takuboku, the Poet of Passion) were released.
April : Kyokuto Eiga Satsueisho (the Far Eastern Motion Picture Studio) was removed to Furuichi.
The films “Kazoku Kaigi” (The Family Conference) and “Kochiyama Soshun” were released.
May : Nikkatsu Bunka Eigabu (the Nikkatsu Documentary Film Department) was established.
Zensho Kinema Kabushiki Kaisha was established.
Chiezo Eiga Production reunited with Nikkatsu.
The films “Oboroyo no Onna” (Woman of the Misty Night) and “Naniwa Elegy” were released.
June: Dr. Arnold Fanck together with Mansaku Itami commenced work on “Atarashiki
Tsuchi” (The New Earth — Die Tochter des Samurai).
Dai Nippon Eiga Kyokai held the Bunka Eiga Concourse(Documentary Film Concourse) and Shochiku’s “Tobacco, Tobacco” Nikkatsu’s “Shio” (Salt) and Tokyo Cinema Shokai’s “ A Land of Pearls ” were awarded prizes.
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