Keijo 1940 Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu 京城

This documentary was produced on the request of the Korean railway-organisation during the Japanese occupation of Korea. The news-coverage in those days was aimed at strengthening the public opinion that Korea and Japan were indissolubly allied. This film, as many other films in those days, was meant to clearly propagate this pact. However, the director of this film, Shimizu Hiroshi, only shows streetscenes. He films without the ideology that was so common in this kind of films. He registers the people in the street in their daily occupations.

Country Japan
Production Country Japan
Language Japanese
Spoken Language Japanese
Gnere Documentary
Release Date 19 July 1940
24 mins
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