… examined broad discourses on popular cinema in Japan during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Since popular cinema … magazines ( shūkanshi ) such as: Heibon, Asahi, Taishū, News tokuhō, Josei seben, Shin shūkan, Jitsuwa yomimono, … that deal directly with popular cinema, as well as the long hours I had to spend at gloomy archives, I cannot really …