(3 July 1900 – 12 April 1990) was a Japanese
poet and
film critic. His real name was . While born in
Shiga Prefecture, he was raised in
Manchukuo
Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...
in
China
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due to his father's work on the
South Manchurian Railway,
and then graduated from
Tokyo University.
He began publishing his own poetry in Manchukuo in 1924 and his work was influenced by that colonial context.
His work was praised by
Riichi Yokomitsu
was an experimental, modernist Japanese writer.
Yokomitsu began publishing in dōjinshi such as ''Machi'' ("Street") and ''Tō'' ("Tower") after entering Waseda University in 1916. In 1923, he published ''Nichirin'' ("The Sun"), '' ...
, and he became a prominent figure in
modernist poetry in
Japan
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, pursuing especially
prose poetry. Kitagawa was also a well-known film critic, one who especially praised the work of
Mansaku Itami (the father of
Juzo Itami), calling it a new, realistic "prose cinema" (''sanbun eiga'') in opposition to the old "poetic cinema" (''inbun eiga'') of
Sadao Yamanaka,
Daisuke Itō, and others. He was a champion of
neorealism in the postwar era.
He was a standard-bearer of the Scenario-Literature-Movement. He, Shuzo Takiguchi, Akira Asano and other members formed a group called 'Ten Scenario-Researchers'. They advocated the movement from a standpoint considering a scenario a literary genre.
See also
*
Lesescenario
Related to closet drama, a closet screenplay is a screenplay intended not to be produced/performed but instead to be read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group.
While any published, or simply read, screenplay might reasona ...
— Kitagawa referred to
Lesescenario
Related to closet drama, a closet screenplay is a screenplay intended not to be produced/performed but instead to be read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group.
While any published, or simply read, screenplay might reasona ...
in his books ''Reports on Pure Cinema'' (''Junsui Eiga ki'' 純粋映画記 193
and ''Charms of Scenarios'' (''Shinario no miryoku'' シナリオの魅力)
*
Motojiro Kajii admired Kitagawa's
poetry
*
Iku Takenaka
*''
The True Story of Ah Q'': He dramatized it in screenplay form
[''Charms of Scenarios'']
References
External links
paper on Kitagawa's :focusing on the connection with scenarioby Taiwanese researcher Yi-ching Tsai
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Japanese film critics
1900 births
1990 deaths
People from Shiga Prefecture
20th-century Japanese poets