Gendai-geki (現代劇) 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[edit]
- Sewamono 世話物 - the contemporary setting plays of bunraku and kabuki
- Cinema of Japan
- Shomin-geki
- Jidai-geki