The Japanese comedy concerns the comedy film produced in Japan.
History
Start of Japanese comedy
Japanese comedy began to take shape in the early 1950s, after the end of the Second World War. Carmen Comes Home is the first Japanese color film, and one of the first Japanese comedy films.
| Year | Movie | Director | Notable actors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Carmen comes back to the country | Keisuke Kinoshita | Hideko Takamine . Chishū Ryū |
| 1957 | Chronicle of the Sun at the end of the Edo era | Yūzō Kawashima | Sachiko Hidari . Yoko Minamida . Yūjirō Ishihara |
| 1957 | The Hole | Kon Ichikawa | Machiko Kyō . Sō Yamamura |
| 1958 | Stolen desires (盗 ま れ た 欲 情) | Shohei Imamura (its 1 st film) | Osamu Takizawa . Hiroyuki Nagato |
| 1958 | In front of Ginza Station (盗 ま れ た 欲 情) | Shōhei Imamura | Frank Nagai . Masahiko Shimazu. Hisano Yamaoka |
| 1959 | Hello (お 早 う) | Yasujiro Ozu | Keiji Sada . Yoshiko Kuga . Chishu Ryu |
| 1985 | Tampopo (タ ン ポ ポ) | Jūzō Itami | Tsutomu Yamazaki . Nobuko Miyamoto . Ken Watanabe |
| 1987 | The Tax Inspector (マ ル サ の 女) | Jūzō Itami | Nobuko Miyamoto . Tsutomu Yamazaki |
The new wave of Japanese comedy (1990 and 2000)
| Year | Movie | Director | Notable actors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Getting Any? | Takeshi Kitano | Beat Takeshi . Dankan |
| 1996 | Shall We Dance? | Masayuki Suo | Kōji Yakusho . Tamiyo Kusakari |
| 1998 | Shark Man Skin and Peach Hip Girl | Katsuhito Ishii | Tadanobu Asano . Shie Kohinata |
| 1998 | Give It All | Itsumichi Isomura | Rena Tanaka |
| 2000 | Party 7 | Katsuhito Ishii | Masatoshi Nagase . Yoshinori Okada |
| 2001 | The melody of misfortune (カ タ ク リ 家 の 幸福) | Takashi Miike | Kenji Sawada . Keiko Matsuzaka |
| 2001 | Red Shadow | Hiroyuki Nakano | Masanobu Ando . Megumi Okina . Kumiko Aso |
| 2001 | Waterboys | Shinobu Yaguchi | Satoshi Tsumabuki . Hiroshi Tamaki . Taiyō Sugiura |
| 2002 | Blessing Bell | Hiroyuki Tanaka | Susumu Terajima . Naomi Nishida |
| 2002 | Trick | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Yukie Nakama . Hiroshi Abe . Naoto Takenaka |
| 2003 | Drugstore Girl | Katsuhide Motoki | Rena Tanaka . Akira Emoto |
| 2004 | Cutie Honey (キ ュ ー テ ィ ー ー ニ ニ ー) | Hideaki Anno | Eriko Sato . Mikako Ichikawa |
| 2004 | Swing Girls (ス ウ ィ ン グ ガ ガ ル ズ ズ) | Shinobu Yaguchi | Juri Ueno . Yuta Hiraoka |
| 2004 | Thirty Lies or So | Kentarô Ôtani | Miki Nakatani . Satoshi Tsumabuki . Kippei Shiina |
| 2005 | The Hook of the Twists (魁 !! ク ロ マ テ ィ 高校) | Yudai Yamaguchi | Takamasa Suga. Ryūji Akiyama. Kai Atō |
| 2005 | Fantastipo (フ ァ ン タ ス ス ィ ィ ポ) | Shogo Yabuuchi | Tsuyoshi Dômoto. Medaka Ikeno |
| 2005 | Tokyo Zombie | Sakichi Sato | Tadanobu Asano . Shô Aikawa |
| 2005 | Tom and the little fox | Masako Imai | Takao Osawa . Yasuko Matsuyuki. Arashi Fukasawa |
| 2006 | Udon | Katsuyuki Motohiro | Konishi Manami |
| 2007 | Big Man Japan (大 日本人) | Hitoshi Matsumoto | Hitoshi Matsumoto . Riki Takeuchi . UA |
| 2007 | Glory to the Filmmaker! (監督·ばんざい!) | Takeshi Kitano | Beat Takeshi . Susumu Terajima . Yuki Uchida |
| 2007 | Tokyo Marble Chocolate (東京 マ ー チ チ チ コ ー ト ト) | Naoyoshi Shiotani | Naoyoshi Shiotani |
| 2008 | Achilles and the Turtle (ア キ レ ス と 亀) | Takeshi Kitano | Takeshi Kitano . Kanako Higuchi . Kumiko Asô |
| 2009 | Symbol (し ん ぼ る) | Hitoshi Matsumoto | Hitoshi Matsumoto |
Some Japanese films from the 1990s and 2000s are made in partnership with other countries:
- Mr. Baseball , Fred Schepisi in 1992.
- Wasabi by Gérard Krawczyk in 2001.
- Pink Subaru by Akram Tillawi in 2009.
Japanese romantic comedy
| Year | Movie | Director | Notable actors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Autumn Moon | Clara Law | Masatoshi Nagase |
| 1996 | Supermarket Woman (ス ー パ ー の 女) | Juzo Itami | Nobuko Miyamoto . Masahiko Tsugawa |
| 1999 | Adrenaline Drive (ア ド レ ナ リ ン ン ン イ ブ ブ) | Shinobu Yaguchi | Masanobu Ando . Hikari Ishida . Yutaka Matsushige |
| 2002 | Work (と ら ば い ゆ) | Kentarō Ōtani | Asaka Seto. Shinya Tsukamoto . Mikako Ichikawa |
| 2004 | Moon and Cherry (月 と チ ェ リ) | Yuki Tanada | Noriko Eguchi. Tasuku Nagaoka |
| 2005 | girl | Ai Yazawa | Mika Nakashima . Aoi Miyazaki |
| 2005 | Nana 2 | Kentarô Ôtani | Mika Nakashima . Yui Ichikawa . Hiroki Narimiya |
| 2009 | My Girlfriend Is a Cyborg (僕 の 彼女 は イ イ イ ー グ グ グ) | Kwak Jae-yong | Haruka Ayase . Keisuke Koide |
| 2009 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Edgar Wright | Michael Cera . Mary Elizabeth |
Other sub-genres of Japanese comedy
Main articles: Musical film , Horror Comedy , Screwball comedy , sci-fi comedy and action comedy .
- Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl from 1998, is a thriller comedy.
- The 2001 Melody of Misfortune is a musical and horrifying comedy.
- Red Shadow of 2001 is an action comedy.
- Blessing Bell of 2002 is a dramatic comedy.
- Swing Girls of 2004 is a musical.
- Cutie Honey of 2004 is an action comedy.
- The Hookback of the Wrong of 2005 is an action comedy.
- Tokyo Marble Chocolate of 2007 is a crazy comedy.
- Tokyo Zombie of 2005 is a parody comedy, and science fiction.
- Symbol of 2009 is a fantastic comedy.