1928
9.5mm
Daburu Ō eiga
"Scriptwriter Yoda Yoshikata was a member; he was most famous for scripting Mizoguchi Kenji’s commercial films, including Naniwa erejī (Osaka Elegy, 1936), Gion no kyōdai (Sisters of the Gion, 1936), Ugetsu (1953), and Sanshō dayū (Sansho the Bailiff, 1954). Before joining the Nikkatsu Studio in 1930, he actively made films as an amateur and helped to publish a coterie magazine. In the late 1920s when Yoda was working as a banker at the Nishijin Branch of Sumitomo Bank in Kyoto, he joined a 9.5mm cine club, Daburu Ō Shinema (W. O. Cinema, established in 1928); together with his fellow banker Oka Shunzō as well as another amateur Ōhashi Kōtarō, Yoda made 9.5mm films including fictional narratives." - Noriko Morisue, "Filming the Everyday: History, Theory, and Aesthetics of Amateur Cinema in Interwar and Wartime Japan" (Yale University: PhD Dissertation, 2020): 114.
Amateur Cinema