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This subseries contains an unveiling record for a statue of Makino Shōzō, along with regulations and reports concerning Makino, and some photographs of the statue that were taken by Miki Shigeru. See Subseries XVII.1: Photos and Posters for an album of stills for Makino's production ofChūshingura/忠臣蔵.

There are over 150 posters in the Collection, and are stored in the East Asian Special Collections.

Kume Masao materials were purchased at auction by Makino. Kume was a novelist and classmate of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke/芥川龍之介 and Kikuchi Kan/菊池寛. This subseries includes his Collection of Letters, newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets. Includes production company notices (invitations to studio events), and materials related to the Greater Japan Film Association/Dai Nippon Eiga Kyōkai/大日本映画協会.

This subseries contains rare books including some copies signed by the author, a well-knownbenshi.

This subseries includes individuals for whom Makino collected their bunkenshi/bibliographic studies as well as film guild related member lists, and assorted fan books. There May be scrapbooks of photocopied articles related to particular individuals, including Fumikura Heizaburō/文倉平三郎, Hirai Teruaki/平井輝章, Kajita Akira/梶田章, Shibata Katsu/柴田勝 (cameraman, film historian), Tsukada Yoshinobu/塚田嘉信 (film historian, collector), Umemura Shisei/梅村紫声(benshi,) and original materials by Yamaguchi Seiichi/山口静一 (translator). Yamaguchi's include 161 Shōchiku Eiga film cuts. Additional materials can be found in Subseries X.1: Pre-War and Wartime Magazines, Film-related. This subseries also contains mooks (magazine-like books) centering on a particular film related individual (fan books and pictorial works (shashinshū/写真集).

This subseries contains photocopied articles from magazines, production company newsletters, and research materials relating to the film,Tsuchi/土/Earth,directed by Uchida (1939) and based on the 1910 novel by Nagatsuka Takashi. Also related to this film, are 6 scrapbooks created by Makino that contain original photographs and photocopied scenarios pasted together in a storyboard type format (called "Storyboard type scrapbooks"). For additional photographs and albums for the filmTsuchi,see Subseries XVII.4: Photos and Posters: Uchida Tomu. There is also a copper plate engraving.

This subseries contains catalogs of Itō's written works. See also, Subseries XI.1 : Post-War Magazines : Film Magazines,Sanbyakunin gekijō/三百人劇場.

For other directors such as Naruse Mikio/成瀬巳喜男, Gosho Heinosuke/五所平之助, and Itō Daisuke/伊藤大輔, see Subseries XI.1 Post-War Magazines: Film Magazines, Sanbyakunin gekijō/三百人劇場.

Kitagawa was a poet and a film critic. (real name, Taguro Tadahiko/田畔忠彦) See Subseries VI.1: Subject Files: Amateur Films, Small-Gauge Films (Kogata eiga),) for cinépoems and materials related to Kitagawa Fuyuhiko. For issues of the poetry journal,Jikan/時間,search the Columbia University Libraries online catalog. For items related to poet, Saitō Mokichi/斎藤茂吉, See box 679 (folder 6).

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This subseries contains photographs related to documentary films, business records and planning materials related to these films from film studio Sakura Eigasha and others. It also contains correspondence from and to Tanaka. It also contains a photocopy of Tanaka's book,Nihon kyōiku eiga hattatsushi/日本敎育映画発達史,from when it was serialized.

Iijima was a scholar of French literature and film, but also a film critic and screenwriter. The subseries contains books written by Iijima, some signed to Makino, as well as books in Iijima's collection.

This subseries contains scrapbooks of photocopied film-related holdings (tables of contents in journals) of particular Japanese libraries as well as photocopies of library catalogs in Japanese libraries. Boxes 585-587 contain photocopies of the catalog and holdings of the FC Amaya Bunko Collection/FC 雨夜文庫 (Tamotsu Amaya Movie Magazine Collection), donated to the Film Center in the 1990s as well as theBulletin of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/東京国立近代美術館研究紀要, no. 3, 4(1991 and 1994), which reprinted the catalog of the Aoyama Collection.

This subseries contains fliers, magazine articles, book excerpts, and manuscripts for articles written by Makino forKinema junpō.Jēmus Maki/ジェームス槇 is a pen name used here for Ozu Yasujirō.

This subseries contains a scrapbook and flier for the 1948 film,Hachinosu no kodomotachi/蜂の巣の子供たち/Children of the Beehive.

This subseries contains several books written by the prominent film critic Iwasaki Akira, as well as a manuscript, his list of works, a scrapbook of materials related to Iwasaki and fliers for discussions of Prokino (Proletarian Film League of Japan), for which he was the group's chairman.

Also used penname Kōno Yūkichi/香野雄吉.Kanō was the producer of the documentary film, The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (shot in 1945 finished in 1946). This section includes articles about and by Kanō Ryūichi, as well as magazines and books owned by Kanō. These include issues of the magazine,Bunka eiga/文化映画from 1938 until 1941. Also,Eiga kyōiku/映画教育/The Cine Educationfrom 1930 to 1943 (9 issues only). For more issues ofBunka eiga,and documentary film related materials, see Subseries VI.7: Subject Files: Documentary Film Materials.

This subseries contains items Makino received from Miki Shigeru's family after Miki's death in 1978 along with materials Makino gathered about Miki from used bookstores. The items include Miki Shigeru's press passes from the Navy and Army (1939-1941) as well as Home Ministry certificates, film production company termination and hiring certificates with monthly salaries (Tōhō, Nippon Eigasha), and correspondence (letters and postcards to Miki). The subseries also includes materials from his post-war film production company, Miki Film Company/Miki Eigasha/三木映画社, including published screenplays (scenarios) for documentary, social education, short film (PR eiga/PR映画), and propaganda films, as well as company documents mainly related to tax payments. Miki's hospital admission records and bills from 1977 are also included here. There are also Makino's manuscripts, fliers, and exhibition related material for the 2001 event on Miki held at The Museum of Art, Kōchi. These materials contain a filmography and biographical information.

The Kishi Matsuo scrapbooks contain materials related to Prokino (The Proletarian Film League of Japan). Kishi was a film critic and leader of the left-wing film movement in the 1920s. The 29 scrapbooks created by Kishi in this section contain many of his critical writings. There are also 8 books written by Kishi in this section, 3 of which are autographed.

This subseries includes articles about the documentary filmmaker Kamei Fumio's works (many clipped and pasted into 8 scrapbooks), his obituary, a cut list, and fliers and programs for his films, including his 1939 filmTatakau heitai/戦う兵隊/Fighting Soldiers.Some materials related to Kamei's cameraman Miki Shigeru can be found here, although a scrapbook and other materials related to Miki are located in Series III: Film-related Individuals' Files, and not in the Directors Files. Kamei's files include some scenarios for his films, such asFujisan/富士山,Minna ikinakereba naranai/みんな生きなければならない,andTatakau heitai/戦う兵隊.

This subseries contains pre-war publications by the Ministry of Home Affairs Police Bureau (Naimushō Keihokyoku/内務省警保局), including originals of the film censorship magazine,Eiga ken'etsu jihō/映画検閲時報,as well as publications by the Ministry of Education Police Bureau (Monbushō Keihokyoku/文部省警保局) and post-war publications by the Motion Picture Code of Ethics Committee (Nippon Eiga Rengōkai Eiga Rinri Kitei Kanribu/日本映画連合会映画倫理規定管理部), later known as Eirin/映倫 (Film Classification and Rating Committee).

This subseries contains documents, scenario photocopies, photographs, postcards from China, and materials concerning Yamanaka's memorial service.

This subseries contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings.

This subseries mostly contains fliers and programs for some of Kurosawa Akira's films. There are also newspaper article obituaries and special issues of magazines published about Kurosawa soon after his death.

This subseries contains photocopies of books and articles written by the psychologist Matsumoto Matatarō/松本亦太郎 (1865-1943) who introduced experimental psychology methods from America and Germany to Japanese universities. See Subseries VI.8: Subject Files: Education for journals likeKyōiku/教育that contain articles written by Matsumoto.

Makino received the albums from the Miki family after Miki Shigeru passed. Many of the photos in the albums were taken by Miki for his book with the folklorist Yanagita Kunio/柳田國男,Yukiguni no minzoku/雪國の民俗(1944). Makino's copies of this book can be found by searching the Columbia University Libraries online catalog. For documents related to Miki Shigeru, see Subseries III.7: Film-related Individuals' Files: Miki Shigeru.

This subseries contains 24 scrapbooks of photocopied articles of Imamura Taihei writings, some in the journal,Eigakai/映画界,Kinema junpō/キネマ旬報and other research materials.

For photo albums related to Imai Tadashi's film,Himeyuri no tō/ひめゆりの塔,see Series XVII: Photos and Posters. For scenarios, see Series V: Scenarios.

Magazines in this subseries are not specifically film-related or are general magazines, cultural magazines, and popular science magazines that are not specifically film related, including music, theater, literature. Nevertheless, many contain articles or sections related to film or are special issues devoted to film. In some cases, the spreadsheet includes article titles and authors or film-related articles in these magazines.

This subseries includes many of the original magazines Makino reprinted in various multi-volume sets with Yumani Shobō and other publishers as well as other film related magazines. They are arranged in alphabetical order by title of the magazine. They contain a range of periodicals, from fan magazines/ファン雑誌 to film technology, and more scholarly publications.

This subseries includes scenarios from Ichikawa's renowned filmBiruma no tategoto/ビルマの竪琴/The Burmese Harp.Some of the scenarios in this subseries were not directed or written by Ichikawa but were put with them by Makino. Makino's organization has been maintained.

This section contains 24 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings as well as photocopied articles from pre-war film magazines. It also contains several pages of print advertising for Western Cinema, excerpted from a number of unknown magazines. Some are scrapbooks of the table of contents from magazines likeEiga hyōron/映画評論andKatsudō kurabu/活動倶楽部,but they also include photocopies of the articles from these magazines and others likeMusashino/武蔵野.

This subseries contains materials related to the proletarian arts movement in Japan. It contains documents, fliers, scrapbooks, and magazines related to the left-wing film organization, Proletarian Film League of Japan/Nihon Puroretaria Eiga Dōmei/日本プロレタリア映画同盟 (or Prokino for short, 1929-1934). The first part of the subseries contains documents, fliers, programs, and manuscripts related to left-wing or proletarian film movements. Makino's commentary and manuscripts for reprint editions of the various left-wing magazines are also contained here as well as theater related pamphlets, fliers, and a scenario related to the left-wing theater group Zenshinza/前進座.

Organized by sections of Tokyo: Akasaka, Asakusa, Ginza, Hibiya, Honjo, Ikebukuro, Kameido, Kanda, Koishikawa, Kyōbashi, Marunouchi, Meguro, Nakano, Nihonbashi, Ōkubo, Roppongi, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ueno, Ushigome, Yūrakucho.

This subseries contains publications of Shōchiku Kabushikigaisha/松竹株式会社 (Shōchiku). These include confidential booklets, reports, newsletters, film catalogs, and magazines, as well as 1930s postcards to film critic Kume Masao/久米正雄 from Shōchiku staff.

This subseries includes Makino's writings about exhibitions at the Kawasaki City Museum and the plans and research related to the 1995 exhibition on the 100th anniversary of film in Japan.

Within the Makino Collection, there are 7 archival document boxes containing 115 folders of pre-war and a few post-war coterie magazines (dōjinshi/同人誌) or self-published journals (today'sfanzines)from student clubs at universities and other film and fan clubs. These publications were largely works by amateurs and cannot be found in libraries or archives in Japan. Some of the pre-WWII coterie magazines in the Makino Collection were formerly owned by Kishi Matsuo/岸松雄 the film critic, director, and screenwriter who was also a leader of the proletarian film movement in the 1920s. The rest were collected by Makino to supplement Kishi Matsuo's collection. There are 89 titles with a total number of 274 issues of coterie magazines in the Collection.

This subseries contains miscellaneous materials and storyboards for Matsubayashi's work. For more Matsubayashi related materials, see Subseries V.3: Scenarios: Other Screenwriters/Directors. There are scenarios, notes, and postcards to Matsubayashi (including from director Yamanaka Sadao/山中貞雄).

This subseries contains: Correspondence for the Nihonkan/日本館, Handbills/programs from movie theaters in Kyūshū/九州: Kumamoto Prefecture/熊本県 (Shōchiku-kwan, Asahikan, Sekaikan), and Fukuoka Prefecture/福岡県. Movie theater handbills: Daiei/大映, Nikkatsu/日活, Tōhō/東宝, Tōwa/東和.

These glass negatives include the Onoe Matsunosuke/尾上松之助 performance inJitsuroku Chushingura/実録忠臣蔵(1921), and are stored in the East Asian Special Collections.

A detailed listing of the items in Subseries VI.6 can be consulted in adownloadable Excel spreadsheet.

This subseries includes items concerning the cinema of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Holland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia/Soviet Union, Sweden, and Yugoslavia. The majority are Russian related. See also, Subseries VI.16: Subject Files: Proletarian Film Movements. For issues ofSoveto eiga/ソヴェト映画,see Subseries XI.1: Post-War Magazines: Film Magazines.

This subseries includes the following topics: actors, catalogs, correspondence, directories/guides, and magazines. This subseries contains U.S. (American) film magazines and bulletins, American film stars-Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Temple, as well as Canadian film publications. It also contains materials related to Hawaii (non-film related tour guides).

The fliers in this section were acquired at special film screening/特別上映 and previews/試写会. They were kept in their original 2 file order.

This subseries contains publications ofNippon Katsudō Shashin (Nikkatsu)/日本活動写真/Japan Cinematograph Company,including confidential documents, newsletters, postcards, magazines and a name list of Nikkatsu workers from the 1930s. Newsletters related to the Nikkatsu Tamagawa/日活多摩川 part of Nikkatsu can also be found in Subseries I.14: Director Files: Uchida Tomu.

This subseries contains photo albums and individual commercial photographic portraits (stills or bromides (buromaido/ブロマイド orpuromaido/プロマイド) organized in alphabetical order by the title of the film depicted or the name of the owner of the album or the main person depicted when the owner is unknown. Albums include those owned by actor Matsui Suisei/松井彗声 and actress Kurishima Sumiko/栗島すみ子 (which mainly contains portraits of Kurishima, but also has two group photos with Charlie Chaplin) and an album with original photographs from the wartime Japanese-German film collaboration,Atarashiki tsuchi/新しき土/New Earth(1937) directed by Arnold Fanck and Itami Mansaku, and taken by Japanese staff (about 500 photos).

This subseries has exhibition catalogs, calendars, programs, fliers and related materials concerning exhibitions at Japanese museums and film archives like The National Film Center (NFC), The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/東京国立近代美術館フイルムセンター. The box 620 contains temple exhibition catalogs. The materials cover the subjects of film, art, photography, and historical artifacts, including Japanese, Western, East Asian art, and individual artists. It also contains museum floor plans, brochures, and film library publications.

This subseries contains educational film scenarios used bybenshi(narrators for silent films) published by the Ministry of Education. For more on educational films(kyōiku eiga/教育映画), see Subseries VI.7: Subject Files: Documentary Film Materials. For more onbenshisee Subseries XIX: Silent Film Materials.

Kikuchi was cameraman for Miki Shigeru and for Kamei Fumio. He worked on the documentary film,The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki(shot in 1945 finished in 1946) with Miki as second camera assistant. He worked for Miki Film Company in 1946. He established Tokyo Photo Laboratory (Ltd.) in 1956 and was a cameraman for several of Kamei's films. --Kichi no kotachi/基地の子たち, Asobiba no nai kodomotachi/遊び場のない子供たち, Fudōbyō tono tatakai/風土病との闘いand others.

This subseries has materials in Korean, Japanese, and English languages. There are Japanese journals published in Korea/Chosen during the Occupation of Korea, as well as Japanese journals published in Japan with articles about Korean film, TV series, and culture. They include journals covering the experience of resident Koreans in Japan, as well as materials about Korean protest demonstrations. There are also postcards and sheet music to the theme song of the famous Korean film,Arirang/아리랑(1926) and Korean film programs and fliers. There are Korean journals related to film, as well as exhibition and retrospective catalogs for Korean film held in Japan. This series includes documentary film proposals and documents concerning Japanese documentary films aboutzainichi chōsenjin/在日朝鮮人 (Korean residents in Japan).

The materials in this section are programs distributed at multiple theaters and locations that were managed by the film production company Shōchiku and were kept in two files by Makino (we have kept them together as well).

This subseries contains issues of the following titles, some of which are catalogs for book companies likeGakutō/学鐙(Maruzen). They include:Librarum Curiosum; Dokusho shunjū/読書春秋; Shomotsu shunjū/書物春秋; Koten/古典; Dokusho/読書; Fuki/傅記; Dokusho ōrai/読書往来/Furor Scribendi; Toshokan kenkyū/図書館研究; A.L.A. Mokuroku kisoku no kaisei/目録規則ノ改正; Sangyō rōdō kankei tosho mokuroku/産業労働関係図書目録; Shinkan tosho zasshi geppō/新刊図書雑誌月報; Dokusho sōdan/読書相談; Shōnen bungaku/少年文学; To kenkyū sōsakuin/図研究総索引; Sōgen/創元; Buntai/文体; Tosho/図書; Books/Shobutsu no hanasoku/書物の花束; Tosho kyōiku/図書教育; Keio University Library Journal,and others.

This subseries contains popular Japanese music songbooks that cover the following areas: national anthems, theme songs, collections of popular songs, school songs and dormitory songs, a Girl Scout songbook, jazz music, shamisen music songs, songs from an annual singing contest held on New Year's Eve, folk songs, military songs, parodies, ballads, bawdy songs, youthful songs, and enka (traditional-style Japanese popular ballads).

This subseries mostly includes books and promotional materials, but also a government document from the Japanese governor's office in Taiwan,Social Activities and Moving Pictures(1924), some still photos, and even a ticket stub from the film company, Nihon Katsudō Shashin Kabushikigaisha/日本活動写真株式会社 (1934).

This Subseries contains materials related to several independent film companies. It includes documents from Ekuransha/エクラン社 film company and has post-war distribution materials from the independent film company, Art Theatre Guild/Nihon Āto Shiatā Girudo/日本アート・シアター・ギルド (ATG), which turned from distribution to production in the late 1960s. It also has documents from Shinsei Eiga/新星映画 and film school rules of Tōa Kinema/東亜キネマ.

This subseries contains scenarios that were written or directed by screenwriters and directors other than Ikeda Tadao or Inoue Kintarō. They are in alphabetical order by film Title. The subseries also contains notes on the screenwriter and director where indicated. In addition to scenarios there are also some set diagrams, storyboards, photographs, and drawings for particular films, indicated in the scope contents notes. The other Screenwriters/Directors set of scenarios includesKiyamachi Sanjō/木屋町三条,written by Kajiwara Kinpachi/梶原金八. The original story was by Yamanaka Sadao/山中貞雄 and this is his last and unfinished scenario. As for the scenario entitled,Watashi wa akachan/私は赤ちゃんdirected by Ichikawa Kon, this May have been written by his partner Wada Natto or by Ichikawa himself. There are two Kurosawa Akira scenarios in this subseries as well. There is another where Kurosawa was the scriptwriter. That one is filed with the scenarios from Nikkatsu (Kieta chūtai/消えた中隊of the 1955 film). This set also originally included some scenarios found with Shōchiku scenarios that were written by Ikeda Tadao/池田忠雄. They have been moved to be with the Ikeda Tadao Materials in Subseries V.1: Scenarios: Ikeda Tadao Materials.

This subseries contains published books about scenarios as well as scenario collections, including autographed copies. Search the Columbia University Libraries online catalog for additional published scenarios (not autographed) from the Makino Collection as well as books about scenarios or the collections of various screenwriters, including Shindō Kaneto/新藤兼人 (1912-2012), Yoda Yoshikata/依田義賢 (1909-1991) and others. The subseries also contains issues ofEizō kenkyū/映像研究,a post-war magazine of scenarios. Other magazines, likeShinario/シナリオ,can be found by searching the Columbia University Libraries online catalog.

This subseries includes materials related to non-film cultural performances. These includekabukitheater, puppet theater,shinpa/新派, musical performances and others. There are programs, handbills, newsletters, guides to the theater, and magazines with special issue themes ofkabuki.For pre-war theater handbills for vaudeville shows that are organized by theater, see Series XIII: Handbills/Chirashifor Vaudeville Shows and Revues, 1915-1947.

This subseries contains scenarios censored by the government and are stamped as such or were found together with censored scenarios but are not stamped (7 of these). We have kept these together with the stamped censored scenarios rather than moving them to other parts of the collection. Censored scenarios can also be found in Subseries V.1: Ikeda Tadao Materials (see, for example,Suradangu biyondo Bengaru/スラダング ビヨンド ベンガルand others). A censored scenario can also be found in Subseries VI.5: Subject Files: Censorship (seeKurama tengu Edo Nikki/鞍馬天狗江戸日記,which also happens to be a Nikkatsu produced film).

Subseries V.1 contains scenarios related to the screenwriter and director Ikeda Tadao that were compiled by him and supplemented by Makino. The scenarios in this subseries are arranged in alphabetical order by Title. Many of the scenarios were written by Ikeda but this subseries also includes scenarios and other related materials written by other authors as indicated. It also includes scenarios that contain a label that indicates it belonged to Ikeda but May have been found with the Shōchiku Film Production Company Files (satsueijo kanren). Ikeda wrote many of these scenarios. For these, Shōchiku is noted in the scope content notes. It also includes censored scenarios written by Ikeda (seeSuradangu biyondo Bengaru/スラダング ビヨンド ベンガル).Scenarios written by Ikeda Tadao can also be found in Subseries V.2: Scenarios: Inoue Kintarō Materials. SeeKyō o kagiri/今日を限りand Subseries V.4: Scenarios: Censored Scenarios,Ojisan/をぢさん.

This subseries contains materials from film organizations, associations, or guilds. The materials in this series are arranged in chronological order, with undated materials coming at the front. The subseries includes publications and documents from the Directors Guild of Japan (Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai/日本映画監督協会), the Federation of Japanese Films Industry or Eidanren (Shadan Hōjin Eiga Sangyō Shinkōkai/社団法人映画産業振興会), the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan or Eiren (Shadan Hōjin Nihon Eiga Seisakusha Renmei Jimukyoku/社団法人日本映画製作社連盟事務局), and Nihon Eiga Fukkō Kaigi/日本映画復興会議.