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This essay argues that the Japanese cinema of the studio era, roughly from 1930 to 1960, should be considered as a "classical cinema" that occurred in parallel fashion to classical Hollywood cinema, which flourished during the same period. It is important to shift the discussion from the terms of an art cinema to those of a popular industrial cinema to fully understand the potential influence of Japanese cinema in Asia and globally as a body of Films recycled on broadcast TV and DVD Formats
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