In 1914, with no serious film magazines being published in Japan at the time, Norimasa Kaeriyama, Yoshiyuki Shigeno and other students interested in movies formed the Japan Cinematographist Association and began to publish the coterie magazine Film Record in October.
[1] The monthly magazine contained a range of articles, from film reviews to how-to advice on making and selling movies, but it primarily came to represent calls for reforming a Japanese cinema that was considered too theatrical and uncinematic.
In the last issue, Kinema Record announced in its "To the Trade" section that it had been brought out by the Kinograph Publishing Company.
Kaeriyama was made president and editor in chief, but soon left and the publication ended.
[3] Its spirit was carried on by other journals like Katsudō no sekai and Kinema junpō.