Filmmaker: Takemura Takeji

Takeji Takemura

Club Affiliation

Zen Nippon Patē Shine Kyōkai [All-Nippon Pathé Cine Association]

Gender:

Male

Awards/Recognition:

Senjō yori won prizes in at least two amateur cine competitions: the second prize at the fifth spring competition sponsored by the Kanto Branch of Zen Nippon Patē Shine Kyōkai, and the first prize at the eleventh competition sponsored by Tokyo Kogata Eiga Kyōkai.

Films:

Senjō yori [From a Battlefield] (1938)

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Profession:

pediatrician

Biographical Notes:

"While he actively made his silhouette animations, Takemura worked as a pediatrician in Tokyo, in addition to publishing essays and novels as an amateur writer... Takemura made silhouette animations using 9.5mm and 16mm systems. His animated works include Tsuribari o ushinatta yamabiko (1936, 9.5mm), Hyakusoku taiji (1937), Kumo to Yorimitsu (Lord and Spider, 1938, 9.5mm), Yamato Takeru no Mikoto (1940), Hōken (1941), and Susanoo no Mikoto (1941). In particular, Kumo to Yorimitsu (Lord and Spider) was selected as one of the award-winning films for a 16mm competition sponsored by KBS, Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai (today’s Japan Foundation) and won a prize at an amateur competition in Australia in 1940." - Noriko Morisue, "Filming the Everyday: History, Theory, and Aesthetics of Amateur Cinema in Interwar and Wartime Japan" (Yale University: PhD Dissertation, 2020): 211.

Bibliographic Resources:

Noriko Morisue, "Filming the Everyday: History, Theory, and Aesthetics of Amateur Cinema in Interwar and Wartime Japan" (Yale University: PhD Dissertation, 2020): 208-215.