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A performer in this country claimed that kissing was as casual as “a pat on the back” to avoid censorship of William Heise’s The Kiss. Magazines such as Kinema Record pushed for the modernization of this country’s film industry, leading to the Pure Film Movement. An avant-garde literary group in this country that sought to move past naturalism assisted in the creation of a film that was not rediscovered until it was found in a (*) barrel by its director in 1971; that group was sometimes referred to as the New Sensationalist School. That 1926 film from this country follows a man who works as a janitor at the asylum where his wife is being (10[1])held. In this country, performers called benshi introduced and provided live narration for silent films. For 10 points, name this country, where the Shinkankakuha group was involved in the production of Teinosuke Kinugasa’s A Page of Madness. ■END■

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