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Control Film Production Company in Korea during Last Years of Japanese Domination

This thesis is a study about the control film production in Korea during the last years of Japanese domination. The Korea film production system since the outbreak of the Sino-japanese war in 1937 went through lots of changes. During the same period the film industry as well has been renovated. In 1939 when the Japanese film law system came into effect Japanese film industry started its reorganization and in 1940 by the extent of the Chosun film production order the Korean film production and film distribution too started to be completely controlled. In 1940 during the Sino-Japanese war because of the production of weapons raw films’ production decreased. Even in Japan the distribution of the Korean raw films was not possible because the Japanese thought that Korean raw films’ distribution was useless. Hereupon the movies made in Korea despite the Japanese colonialism started to show typical Korean cultural features and to keep the independence of the Korea film production. In 1942 the Chosun film corporation was established. After the foundation of this company the producers removed all the existing funds and the Japanese movie men plus the governors’ patronage became the priority of the financiers. Moreover the Japanese became the administrators of the corporation and because the movie production was mainly in charge of the Koreans the considered colonialism period’s features started to be their strategic point. The movies made by this corporation were about the war mobilization, the provisions increase, recruiting and similar. In 1944 the corporation and the affiliated company merged and the Unification film company has been created. At the same time members and system have been renewed as well and just before the release of the movie “our battlefield” and because of the Japanese defeat and the entrance of USA Army Force the corporation embraced all the enemy property enterprises too. This study is proposing to research the overlooked Chosun film production corporation and the Chosun film distribution company’s unification and renovation processes. This study is proposing also to correct people’s wrong knowledge about the movies “sons of kamikaze”, whose real title is “love and vow” and “blood and sweat”, whose real title is “our battlefield”. This thesis then has as main point the analysis of the control film company foundation and because of its renovation action in which way the movies produced during this period react to the current situation and in which way movie makers tried to approach this study through the shapes of their movies.