Nikkatsu

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Nikkatsu KK ( Japanese 日 活 株式会社 , Nikkatsu Kabushiki kaisha ; English Nikkatsu Corp. ) is a Japanese film company .

It emerged in 1912 from a number of companies under the name Nippon Katsudō Shashin KK ( 日本 活動 写真 株式会社 , German about: "Japanese moving images AG"), or Nikkatsu for short . Initially, Nikkatsu produced films in the tradition of the Shimpa theater with great success and soon controlled the Japanese market together with Tenkatsu ( Tennenshoku Katsudō ). Nikkatsu used the method of lending films from the Shimpa tradition coupled with other films. Well known directors who worked for Nikkatsu in the 1920s and 1930s include Minoru Murata and Kenji Mizoguchi .

In 1941 the Japanese film industry was forced to concentrate by the government, while Nikkatsu went with the smaller companies Daito and Shinko in a new company, the later Daiei . The other two major film companies were Tōhō and Shōchiku . It wasn't until 1954 that Nikkatsu was re-established as an independent company.

literature

  • Mark Schilling: No borders, no limits. Nikkatsu action cinema . FAB Press, Godalming 2007, ISBN 978-1-903254-43-1
  • - MAERZ - (Axel Estein): Nikkatsu - high pressure weirdcore sex in Pingponghausen. In: Splatting Image, # 7, June 1991, Berlin, pp. 42-46