Tendency film (傾向映画, keikō-eiga) was a genre of socially conscious, left-leaning films produced in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Tendency films reflected a perceived leftward shift in Japanese society in the aftermath of the 1927 Shōwa financial crisis.[1] Notable examples of the genre are Tomu Uchida's A Living Puppet (1929), Kenji Mizoguchi's Tokyo March and Metropolitan Symphony (both 1929), Tomotaka Tasaka's Behold This Mother (1930), and Shigeyoshi Suzuki's What Made Her Do It? (1930).[1][2]
- ^ a b Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1982). The Japanese film: art and industry (Expanded ed.). Princeton University Press. pp. 67–68. OCLC 807039.
- ^ Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey (1996). The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford University Press. p. 416. ISBN 9780198742425.