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Crossing thresholds: women directors making a home in Japanese cinema

Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 2023
Within many of the works of contemporary Japanese women commercial filmmakers, we see a new vision of home, home spaces, and the act of home making. These depictions diverge from cinematic spaces of and metaphors about the home found in the works of ...
Colleen Laird
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“What is contemporary Japanese Cinema?”. Questioning the answers, answering with questions

open access: yesStudi E Saggi, 2020
The English title of a recent book by renowned film scholar Yomota Inuhiko reads: “What is Japanese Cinema?”. In the preface to the English edition Yomota states that the direction we might take, should we try to provide an answer to the question ...
Giacomo Calorio
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Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s Wheel of Fortune and Japanese Cinema

Yearbook Japan, 2023
Japan Yearbook 2022 featured an article which reflected on the award-winning Japanese film Drive My Car (Doraibu mai-ka), directed by Hamaguchi Ryūsuke. It received the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
E. L. Katasonova
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How can we talk about ‘transnational’ when we talk about Japanese cinema?

Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 2019
Is it possible to talk about “transnational” when we talk about Japanese cinema? If it is, how? It is true that there are problems in the concept of national cinema.
Daisuke Miyao
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Introduction. The Misleading Discovery of Japanese National Cinema [PDF]

open access: yesArts, 2018
The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist visions understanding its singularities as a result of its isolation from the rest of the world and its close links to local aesthetic and philosophical traditions.
Marcos P Centeno Martin
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Japanese Transnational Cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This Arts special issue expands the contemporary discussions of transnational Japanese cinema by proposing new theoretical frameworks, analytical methodologies and critical approaches. Our aim is to challenge the old ‘national’ paradigm by highlighting the limitations of studying Japanese film as a cinematic phenomenon confined to its national borders.
Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo, Morita, N.
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Portrayed of Nature Philosophy Through Japanese Cinema: Representation of Nihonjin no Shizenkan in Sweet Bean Movie

Chi e Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching
This study analyzes how Japanese people love nature, as presented in the movie Sweet Bean. Nihonjin no shizenkan is considered one of the Japanese ideal philosophies for valuing nature.
Rima Novita Sari, Alpina Pamugari
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The Secret History of Japanese Cinema: The Yakuza movies

open access: yesGlobal Crime, 2006
This article explores the interplay among economic imperatives within the entertainment business, the mafia's role in the creation of its own media image, and the production of gangster films. Taking Japan as a case study, the paper shows that, when given the chance to influence the content of gangster movies, crime bosses have portrayed themselves as ...
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