Gendai-geki

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Gendai-geki () is a genre of film and television or theater play in Japan. Unlike the jidai-geki genre of period dramas, whose stories are set in the Edo period, gendaigeki stories are contemporary dramas set in the modern world.

See also[]

  • Sewamono (世話物) - the contemporary setting plays of bunraku and kabuki
  • Cinema of Japan
  • Shomin-geki
  • Jidai-geki


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