List of Japanese films of 1980
List of films
Table:
Japanese films released in 1980

Title

Director

Cast

Genre

Notes

The Beast to Die

—
[citation needed]

Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy
Masayuki Akehi
Fuyumi Shiraishi
—
[citation needed]

Denziman Movie

—
[citation needed]

Disciples of Hippocrates
Kazuki Ōmori
Masato Furuoya, Ran Ito, Akira Emoto
—
[2]

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
Hiroshi Fukutomi

Animated feature[3]

Dreamy Fifteen
Shinji Sōmai
Shingo Tsurumi, Toshinori Omi, Mariko Ishihara
—
[4]

Foster Daddy, Tora!
Yoji Yamada
Kiyoshi Atsumi
—
[citation needed]

Gamera: Super Monster
Noriaki Yuasa
Mach Fumiake
—
[5]

Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara
Jidai-geki
[6]

Kaigende no yoru
Kosaku Yamashita
Kōji Tsuruta, Takao Ito, Kanako Higuchi
—
[4]

Kamen Rider: Eight Rider vs. Galaxy King

—
[citation needed]

Magnitude 7.9
Kenjiro Omori
Hiroshi Katsuno, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Yumi Takigawa
Disaster film
[4][7]

Makoto-chan
Tsutomu Shibayama

—
Animated feature[4]

Ningyo ga kureta Sakuragai
Sakuro Yasu
Sumiko Kakizaki, Tsunehiro Arai, Kyoko Iwaki
—
[3]

Ienakiko
Toru Izusaki

—
Animated feature[3]

An Ocean to Cross
Kei Kumai
Katsuo Nakmura, Masaaki Daimon, Mitsuo Hamada
—
[3]

The Old Capital
Kon Ichikawa
Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura
—
[8]

Onna no Hosomichi: Nureta Kaikyo
Kazunari Takeda
Miyako Yamaguchi, Megumi Ogawa, Kan Mikami
Erotic drama
[9]

Panda no sekai–Fanfan to nakama tachi
Shiro Nanmura

Documentary
[6]

Rape Hunter Nerawareta Onna

[citation needed]

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The Beast To Die ( 野獣死すべし , Yajū shisubeshi ) is a 1980 Japanese thriller starring Yūsaku Matsuda . It was directed by Toru Murakawa and produced by Haruki Kadokawa .
Cyborg 009 ( Japanese : サイボーグゼロゼロナイン , Hepburn : Saibōgu Zero-Zero-Nain ) is a manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori . It was serialized in many different Japanese magazines , including Monthly Shōnen King , Weekly Shōnen Magazine , Shōnen Big Comic , COM , Shōjo Comic , Weekly Shōnen Sunday , Monthly Shōnen Jump , and Monthly Comic Nora . In 2012 , comiXology acquired the digital distribution rights to Shotaro Ishinomori 's catalogue , including Cyborg 009 .
Fuyumi Shiraishi ( 白石冬美 , Shiraishi Fuyumi , 14 October 1936 - 26 March 2019 ) was a Japanese actress , voice actress and narrator . Shiraishi died on March 26 , 2019 of ischemic heart failure at her Setagaya home at the age of 82 .
Denshi Sentai Denjiman ( 電子戦隊デンジマン , Denshi Sentai Denjiman ) [ Note 1 ] is Toei 's fourth entry to its Super Sentai metaseries . It was broadcast from February 2 , 1980 to January 31 , 1981 . The title given to this series for international distribution by Toei is Denjiman , Electric Fighters .
Disciples of Hippocrates ( ヒポクラテスたち , Hipokuratesu-tachi ) is a 1980 Japanese film directed by Kazuki Ōmori .
Kazuki Ōmori ( 大森 一樹 , Ōmori Kazuki , born March 3 , 1952 ) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter .
Masato Furuoya ( 古尾谷 雅人 , Furuoya Masato , May 14 , 1957 - March 25 , 2003 ) was a Japanese actor . He won the award for best actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival and at the 5th Hochi Film Award for Disciples of Hippocrates and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Uchū no hōsoku . He committed suicide on March 25 , 2003 by hanging himself .
Ran Itō ( 伊藤 蘭 , Itō Ran , born 13 January 1955 ) is a Japanese actress and previous member of the 1970s legendary idol group Candies . As the leading member of Candies , Ran Itō was in charge of the solo of most hit songs . Her real name is Ran Mizutani ( 水谷 蘭 Mizutani Ran ) née Itō ( 伊藤 蘭 Itō Ran ) . Ran Itō was born in Kichijōji , Musashino , Tokyo , Japan . She is married to Mizutani Yutaka , a famous actor in Japan . She won the award for best supporting actress at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival for Disciples of Hippocrates .
Akira Emoto ( 柄本 明 , Emoto Akira , born 3 November 1948 in Chūō , Tokyo ) is a Japanese actor .
Doraemon : Nobita 's Dinosaur ( ドラえもん のび太の恐竜 , Doraemon - Nobita no Kyōryū ) is a 1980 Japanese animated film based on the manga series Doraemon , particularly the first volume of the same name of the Doraemon Long Stories series . The film premiered on 15 March 1980 in Japan . It 's the first feature-length Doraemon film .
Hiroshi Fukutomi ( 福冨 博 , Fukutomi Hiroshi , former name 福富 博 ( read the same ) ) is an anime director born July 25 , 1950 in Kōchi Prefecture , Japan . After leaving Tokyo Designer Gakuin in the middle of his studies , he joined A Production ( then known as Shin'ei Dōga ) . In 1982 , with some of the staff producing Kaibutsu-kun ( including Yoshinobu Sanada , Toshiyuki Honda , and Makoto Moriwaki ) , Fukutomi founded Animal House ( あにまる屋 , Animaru-ya ) , now known as Studio Comet .
Tonda Couple ( Japanese : 翔んだカップル , Hepburn : Tonda Kappuru , Soaring Couple ) is a shōnen manga series by Kimio Yanagisawa . It won the 1979 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen . It was adapted into a 1980 film directed by Shinji Sōmai and starring Hiroko Yakushimaru and Toshinori Omi .
Shinji Sōmai ( 相米 慎二 , Sōmai Shinji , 13 January 1948 - 9 September 2001 ) was a Japanese film director . He directed 13 films between 1980 and 2000 .
Shingo Tsurumi ( 鶴見 辰吾 , Tsurumi Shingo , born December 29 , 1964 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese actor .
Toshinori Omi ( 尾美としのり , Omi Toshinori , born 7 December 1965 ) is a Japanese actor .
Foster Daddy , Tora ! ( 男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌 , Otoko wa Tsurai yo : Torajirō Kamome Uta ) aka Torasan 's Song of the Seagull is a 1980 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada . It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma ( Tora-san ) , and Ran Itō as his love interest or Madonna . Foster Daddy , Tora ! is the twenty-sixth entry in the popular , long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series .
Yoji Yamada ( 山田 洋次 , Yamada Yōji , born September 13 , 1931 in Toyonaka , Osaka ) is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy ( The Twilight Samurai , The Hidden Blade and Love and Honor ) .
Kiyoshi Atsumi ( 渥美 清 Atsumi Kiyoshi ) , born Yasuo Tadokoro ( 田所 康雄 Tadokoro Yasuo , 10 March 1928 in Tokyo - 4 August 1996 in Tokyo ) , was a Japanese film actor . He started his career in 1951 as a comedian at a strip-show theater in Asakusa . After two years of fighting pulmonary tuberculosis , he made his debut on TV in 1956 and on film in 1957 . His vivid performance of a lovable , innocent man in a film Dear Mr. Emperor ( Haikei Tenno-Heika-Sama ) in 1963 established his reputation as an actor . Later he became the star of the highly popular Tora-san series of films , from the original Otoko wa Tsurai yo ( translated in English as 'It 's Tough being a Man ' ) in 1969 to the 48th film released in 1995 , the year before his death . The enduring success of the series made him synonymous with the Tora-san character , and many Japanese regarded his death as the death of Tora-san , not the death of Yasuo Tadokoro or Kiyoshi Atsumi .
Gamera : Super Monster ( 宇宙怪獣ガメラ , Uchū Kaijū Gamera , lit . Space Monster Gamera ) [ a ] is a 1980 Japanese kaiju film directed by Noriaki Yuasa and produced by Daiei Film . It is the eighth film in the Gamera film series , following the release of Gamera vs. Zigra in 1971 . Gamera : Super Monster was distributed by New Daiei , and was released theatrically in Japan on 20 March 1980 . It was followed by Gamera : Guardian of the Universe in 1995 , which would mark the beginning of the franchise 's Heisei period .
Noriaki Yuasa ( 湯浅 憲明 , Yuasa Noriaki ) ( 28 September 1933 - 14 June 2004 ) was a Japanese director . Yuaasa is the main director of the Japanese film series Gamera , about a giant flying turtle that befriends small boys and battles giant monsters . The series was created by Daiei Film Studios after the box office success of the Toho Godzilla series .
Kagemusha ( 影武者 , Shadow Warrior ) is a 1980 jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa . In Japanese , kagemusha is a term used to denote a political decoy . It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying daimyō to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan . The daimyō is based on Takeda Shingen , and the film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino . The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival . It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and received other honours .
Akira Kurosawa ( Japanese : 黒澤明 or 黒沢明 or 黑澤明 Kurosawa Akira ; March 23 , 1910 - September 6 , 1998 ) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter , who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years . He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema . Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936 , following a brief stint as a painter . After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter , he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata ( a.k.a . Judo Saga ) . After the war , the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel ( 1948 ) , in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role , cemented the director 's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan . The two men would go on to collaborate on another 15 films . Rashomon , which premiered in Tokyo , became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival . The commercial and critical success of that film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry , which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers . Kurosawa directed approximately one film per year throughout the 1950s and early 1960s , including a number of highly regarded ( and often adapted ) films , such as Ikiru ( 1952 ) , Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ) . After the 1960s he became much less prolific ; even so , his later work - including his final two epics , Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 ) - continued to win awards , though more often abroad than in Japan . In 1990 , he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement .
Tatsuya Nakadai ( 仲代 達矢 , Nakadai Tatsuya , born Motohisa Nakadai ; December 13 , 1932 ) is a Japanese film actor famous for the wide variety of characters he has portrayed and many collaborations with famous Japanese film directors . He was featured in 11 films directed by Masaki Kobayashi , including The Human Condition trilogy , wherein he starred as the lead character Kaji , plus Harakiri , Samurai Rebellion and Kwaidan . Nakadai worked with a number of Japan 's best-known filmmakers - starring or co-starring in five films directed by Akira Kurosawa , as well as being cast in significant films directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara ( The Face of Another ) , Mikio Naruse ( When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ) , Kihachi Okamoto ( Kill ! and The Sword of Doom ) , Hideo Gosha ( Goyokin ) , Shirō Toyoda ( Portrait of Hell ) and Kon Ichikawa ( Enjō and Odd Obsession ) .
Tsutomu Yamazaki ( 山崎 努 , Yamazaki Tsutomu , born December 2 , 1936 ) is a Japanese actor . He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark . Yamazaki is well known for his role Nenbutsu no Tetsu on the television jidaigeki Hissatsu Shiokinin and Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin .
Kenichi Hagiwara ( 萩原健一 ; Hagiwara Ken'ichi , 26 July 1950 - 26 March 2019 ) was a Japanese singer and actor .
Jidaigeki ( 時代劇 , lit . era drama ) is a genre of film , television , video game , and theatre in Japan . Literally meaning period dramas , they are most often set during the Edo period of Japanese history , from 1603 to 1868 . Some , however , are set much earlier - Portrait of Hell , for example , is set during the late Heian period - and the early Meiji era is also a popular setting . Jidaigeki show the lives of the samurai , farmers , craftsmen , and merchants of their time . Jidaigeki films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies , a word meaning sword fight , though chambara is more accurately a subgenre of jidaigeki . Jidaigeki rely on an established set of dramatic conventions including the use of makeup , language , catchphrases , and plotlines .
Eiichi Ono ( 小野 榮一 , Ono Eiichi , December 6 , 1924 - June 16 , 1987 ) , better known by his stage name Kōji Tsuruta ( 鶴田 浩二 , Tsuruta Kōji ) , was a Japanese actor and singer . He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing . His daughter , Sayaka Tsuruta , is an actress .
Takao Ito ( 伊藤 高男 , Itō Takao , born 5 November 1952 ) is a Japanese ski jumper . He competed in the normal hill and large hill events at the 1976 Winter Olympics .
Kanako Higuchi ( 樋口 可南子 , Higuchi Kanako ) ( born December 13 , 1958 ) is a Japanese actress . Her credits include film , television , and radio dramas , stage , commercials , and voice roles . Born in Kamo , Niigata , she played her first lead at age 20 in the television drama Kōrogi-bashi . Kanako 's film credits include Hokusai Manga , Bedtime Eyes , Zatoichi ( 1989 ) , Casshern , Memories of Tomorrow , and Ashura no Jō Blood Gets In Your Eyes . Among her television roles are Lady Yodo in the 1987 NHK Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune and Hanayasha in the 1991 Taiga drama Taiheiki . She has represented the cosmetics firms KOSÉ and Kao . She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 15th Hochi Film Awards for Rōningai . She married Shigesato Itoi in 1993 and has a dog named Bouillon .
Kamen Rider ( 仮面ライダー , Kamen Raidā , Masked Rider in English ) is a Japanese tokusatsu television series . It is the sixth program in the Kamen Rider Series . It has the same name as the first series in the franchise , and fans usually refer to this series as The New Kamen Rider ( 新しい仮面ライダー , Atarashii Kamen Raidā ) or Skyrider ( スカイライダー , Sukairaidā ) ( after the main character ) in order to distinguish it from the original . The series was broadcast on MBS from October 5 , 1979 to October 10 , 1980 . The series was a co-production between Toei and Ishinomori Productions , and was created by Shotaro Ishinomori . It aired every Saturday at 7:00 PM . The New Kamen Rider was intended as a revival of the original Kamen Rider , going back to the basic , essential themes established in that series , as opposed to the more complex and unique series that came before it , such as Kamen Rider Amazon and Kamen Rider Stronger .
Hiroshi Katsuno ( 勝野 洋 , Katsuno Hiroshi , born July 27 , 1949 in Kumamoto ) is a Japanese actor . He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University . Katsuno 's debut was as a detective Texas in the television series Taiyō ni Hoero ! in 1974 and he won great popularity through the role . The episode his character Texas was killed recorded 42.5% audience rating , it was highest audience rating in Taiyō ni Hoero ! .
Toshiyuki Nagashima ( 永島敏行 , Nagashima Toshiyuki ) is a Japanese actor . He won the award for Best Newcomer at the 3rd Hochi Film Awards for Kaerazaru hibi and for Best Actor at the 6th Hochi Film Awards for Enrai .
Yumi Takigawa ( 多岐川裕美 , Takigawa Yumi , born 16 February 1951 ) is a Japanese actress and singer . She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1974 .
A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device . Such disasters include natural disasters such as floods , earthquakes , tsunamis or asteroid collisions , accidents such as shipwrecks or airplane crashes , or calamities like worldwide disease pandemics . A subgenre of action films , these films usually feature some degree of build-up , the disaster itself , and sometimes the aftermath , usually from the point of view of specific individual characters or their families or portraying the survival tactics of different people . These films often feature large casts of actors and multiple plot lines , focusing on the characters ' attempts to avert , escape or cope with the disaster and its aftermath . The genre came to particular prominence during the 1970s with the release of high-profile films such as Airport ( 1970 ) , followed in quick succession by The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ) , Earthquake ( 1974 ) and The Towering Inferno ( 1974 ) . The casts were generally made up of familiar character actors . Once the disaster begins in the film , the characters are usually confronted with human weaknesses , often falling in love and almost always finding a villain to blame . The films usually feature a persevering hero or heroine ( Charlton Heston , Steve McQueen , etc . ) called upon to lead the struggle against the threat . In many cases , the evil or selfish individuals are the first to succumb to the conflagration . The genre experienced a renewal in the 1990s boosted by computer-generated imagery ( CGI ) and large studio budgets which allowed for greater spectacle , culminating in the cinematic phenomenon that was James Cameron 's Titanic in 1997 .
Makoto-chan ( まことちゃん ) is a shōnen gag manga by Kazuo Umezu . The series was initially published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 18 , 1976 to July 8 , 1981 , and later returned from August 24 , 1988 to July 26 , 1989 as Heisei-ban Makoto-chan .
Tsutomu Shibayama ( 芝山努 , Shibayama Tsutomu , born 9 March 1941 ) is a Japanese anime director of film and television who directed anime . He was born in Asakusa , Taitō , Tokyo . In 2012 he won Agency for Cultural Affair Award .
Nobody 's Boy : Remi ( 家なき子 , Ie Naki Ko , lit . Homeless Child ) is a Japanese anime series by Tokyo Movie Shinsha . The story is based upon French author Hector Malot 's novel Sans Famille in France . It follows a young boy who works for a travelling group of players in the hope of earning money and seeing his foster family again . The anime is well known in Hong Kong , Taiwan , Latin America , Canada ( in French ) , France , The Netherlands , Italy , the Arab world , Indonesia and Philippines . A movie version by the same studio and director was released in 1980 . In the Philippines , the anime was originally shown between 1979 and 1980 . However , like the other contemporary anime broadcast in the same period , Candy Candy , Heidi , etc . ) , the full story was not shown . It was only after nearly twenty years that it was shown in full , under the title Remi on ABS-CBN , this time in Tagalog . ImaginAsian attempted to make the show available in America through on-demand DVD , but with no success . However , it is still available in streaming format on Hulu .
Kei Kumai ( 熊井 啓 , Kumai Kei , June 1 , 1930 - May 23 , 2007 ) was a Japanese film director from Azumino , Nagano prefecture . After his studies in literature at Shinshu University , he began work as a director 's assistant . He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his first film , Nihon rettō , in 1965 . His 1972 film Shinobu Kawa was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival . His 1974 film Rise , Fair Sun was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival . Perhaps his best-known film is Sandakan No . 8 , which received widespread acclaim for tackling the issue of a woman forced into prostitution in Borneo before the outbreak of World War II . Kinuyo Tanaka won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance . The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards . Kumai 's follow-up film was 1976 's Cape of North , starring French actress Claude Jade as a Swiss nun who falls in love with a Japanese engineer on a trip from Marseilles to Yokohama . His 1986 film The Sea and Poison won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival . In 1992 , his film Luminous Moss was entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival .
Koto ( 古都 ) is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata 's novel The Old Capital . Momoe Yamaguchi and Masaya Oki made their last appearances in the film . It is a remake of the 1963 film Twin Sisters of Kyoto .
Kon Ichikawa ( 市川 崑 , Ichikawa Kon , 20 November 1915 - 13 February 2008 ) was a Japanese film director .
Momoe Yamaguchi ( Japanese : 山口 百恵 , Hepburn : Yamaguchi Momoe , born 17 January 1959 ) is a Japanese former singer , actress , and idol whose career lasted from 1972 to 1980 . Often simply referred to by her given name Momoe , Yamaguchi is one of the most successful singers in Japanese music , releasing thirty-two singles , including three number one hits , and twenty-one studio albums . She also starred in fifteen feature films and several television serial dramas . At age twenty-one , Yamaguchi retired at the height of her popularity to marry her frequent costar , Tomokazu Miura ; she has never performed or made a public appearance since .
Tomokazu Miura ( 三浦 友和 , Miura Tomokazu , born Miura Minoru ( 三浦 稔 ) on January 28 , 1952 ) is a Japanese actor .
Onna no Hosomichi : Nureta Kaikyo ( おんなの細道・濡れた海峡 ) is a 1980 Japanese erotic drama film directed by Kazunari Takeda . It was released on 12 April 1980 .
Miyako Yamaguchi ( 山口美也子 ) ( born February 3 , 1952 ) is a Japanese actress . She won the award for best supporting actress at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Farewell to the Land .
Megumi Ogawa ( 小川 恵 , Ogawa Megumi ) is a former Japanese football player . She played for Japan national team .
Kan Mikami ( 三上 寛 , Mikami Kan , born March 20 , 1950 ) is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter and actor . His music , heavily influenced by American blues , was popular in Japan in the 1970s . He re-wrote the lyric of the song Yume wa Yoru Hiraku for his cover version in 1972 , which was banned for its negative portrayal of Modern Japanese Culture . Mikami also acted in cinema and is notable for collaborations with Shūji Terayama and his avant-garde theater Tenjō Sajiki . His autobiography , A Life in Folk , was translated into English and published in 2017 by Public Bath Press of Nara , Japan .
Sex in film is the presence of sexuality in a film . Since the development of the medium , the presence in films of any form of sexuality has been controversial . Some films containing sex scenes have been criticized by religious groups or have been banned or the subject of censorship by governments , or both . In countries with a film rating system , films containing sex scenes typically receive a restricted classification . Nudity in film may be regarded as sexual or as non-sexual . An erotic film is usually a film that has an erotic quality that causes the creation of sexual feelings , as well as a philosophical contemplation concerning the aesthetics of sexual desire , sensuality and romantic love . Love scenes , erotic or not , have been present in films since the silent era of cinematography . A pornographic film , on the other hand , is a sex film which does not usually claim any artistic merit . Sex scenes have been presented in many genres of film , although there are some in which it is rare . Many actors and actresses have performed nude or partial nude scenes , or have dressed and behaved in ways considered sexually provocative by contemporary standards at some point in their careers .
In film and television , drama is a genre of narrative fiction ( or semi-fiction ) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone . Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular subgenre , such as police crime drama , political drama , legal drama , historical period drama , domestic drama , teen drama or comedy-drama . These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter , or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods . All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis ) characters . In this broader sense , drama is a mode distinct from novels , short stories , and narrative poetry or songs . In the modern era before the birth of cinema or television , drama within theatre was a type of play that was neither a comedy nor a tragedy . It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries , along with film studies , adopted . Radio drama has been used in both senses - originally transmitted in a live performance , it has also been used to describe the more high-brow and serious end of the dramatic output of radio .