Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan; Film Theatre; Kanehara Kinjo; K-Diamond; actualite films; 영화
Issue Date
2014-03
Publisher
한국영화학회 / Film Studies Association Of Korea (Fisak)
Citation
영화연구 , 2014년 59호, pp.401 - 427(27쪽)
Abstract
1910, Japanese Kanehara Kinjo who worked on a show business in Thailand built Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan at seoul. It was booming in white-clad Chosun peoples. Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan was different from the other Japanese theater. Audience were Chosun peoples. That is why Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan is the important subject of Korean cinema history in the Japanese colonial period. Nevertheless, Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan was not studied carefully until now. Because there is less information about it. On this research paper I found new facts out about Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan. The important contents are as follows. First, Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan owner was Kanehara Kinjo who ran the Geumwon store. Films were distributed by Watanabe Tomoyori of K-Diamond company. Second is film distribution of Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan. I fount out K-Diamond company distributed film to Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan. It was not Hukusaki Entertainment what was mentioned by Lee Koo-Young. Third, Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan produced some actualite films such as 〈State Funeral〉 at 1911, and showed those films. This moves up the beginning of film production in Korea as early 1910. Fourth, I explained the reasons why Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan dropped out of a race. These facts about Gyeongseong Godeung Yeonyegwan fills a vacuum in Korean cinema history in the Japanese colonial period. And these facts raise the necessity of borderless studies about the early Korean cinema history which coexisted with Thailand, Japan, and Western film.