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.
Gendai budō, Japanese martial arts established after the 1860s
On 3 October 2008 in the Tokyo District Court, Itai appeared for the defence in a lawsuit brought by the Sumo Association against the Shukan Gendai magazine over further match-fixing allegations.
Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen as Luka Millfy/Gokai Yellow, Geki Yellow (voice) (2012)
The October 2012 film Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie saw Retsu Ichijouji (Kenji Ohba) pass the torch to a new generation of Space Sheriffs led by Geki Jumonji (Yuma Ishigaki), who makes a few cameos in that year's Super Sentai series installment Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.
Mikio Naruse (1905–1969) and Yasujirō Ozu (1903–1963) were two prominent directors considered to work primarily in the field of shomin-geki.