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Dear all,<br><br>Two films that spring to mind immediately: Suzuki
Seijun's Gate of Flesh/Nikutai no mon (1964) and Hasebe Yasuharu's Stray
Cat Rock: Sex Hunter/Nora-neko rokku: Sekkusu hanta (1970). I also seem
to recall that Takechi Tetsuji's Black Snow/Kuroi yuki (1965) deals
with the same subject, but have not had the chance to see it myself.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Kristoffer Noheden<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 18:22:16 +0100<br>From: macyroger@yahoo.co.uk<br>To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>Subject: Films that depict the occupation of Japan, made afterwards<br><br>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dear
Kinejapaners,</span></p>
<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I'm afraid I've got a new bone to
pick.</span></p>
<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I caught 'Stray Dog' last night at the
NFT, having missed it during the recent Kurosawa retrospective.<span style=""> </span>The film was introduced by Mamoun
Hassan, who made several interesting points, most of which I agree with.<span style=""> </span>He asked rhetorically if anyone had ever
seen Allied soldiers in Japanese occupation-era films and, of course, no one had
- fair point.<span style=""> </span>But he then went onto
claim that films about the occupation were also absent from post-1952 Japanese
cinema since the Japanese didn't want to be reminded of this
era.</span></p>
<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This did surprise me as I've banging
on for years on to anyone that might listen that someone should do a season of
cross-national films around occupation.<span style="">
</span>No Japanese ones?<span style=""> </span>That
started me on a list of films made after the occupation that depicted the era
and situation..</span></p>
<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Leaving aside films <span style=""> </span>mainly on re-patriation, or the
hibakusha, themes to themselves; leaving aside ?shima, who rarely set a scene in
the occupation period, but for whom in most of his career the American
occupation had not really ended; and leaving aside films like Ozu's <i style="">Early Spring</i>, where the prior death of
the child, </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">seemingly</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> in the occupation period, weighs so
heavily; I can still think of more than enough for a Japanese share in a season
(below).<span style=""> </span>And my list is culled just
from those few films shown in the west.<span style="">
</span>I seem to recall mention of many more that I haven't seen, and that's
where I'd appreciate some help.<span style=""> </span>I'd
be surprised if directors like Imai, Kamei or Ieki didn't do retrospective films
on the occupation, but they haven't been shown here.</span></p>
<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Now, few of these films have companies
of American, or other Allied soldiers marching past outside the window.<span style=""> </span>Actors convincing as westerners were
unaffordable to Japanese studios in the 50s and 60s at least.<span style=""> </span>But films about life in an occupied
country don't need sharply drawn occupiers.<span style=""> </span>And isn't this the point - almost the
opposite of Mamoun Hassan's thesis - that there are films about the occupation;
but that 'we' don't want to see them, or at least that they are not much shown
at the BFI, because they sideline westerners as unimportant or faceless
characters, and/or they are politically uncomfortable for us
?</span></p>
<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Anyway, here's my initial list, if
anyone could add to it, or dispute it, please :-</span></p>
<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Films that depict the
occupation of Japan, made afterwards.</span></p>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Floating
Clouds</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ukigumo</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">NARUSE
Mikio</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1955</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Madadayo</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Madadayo</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">KUROSAWA
Akira</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1993</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Many
of the 'Battles without Humanity' series</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Jingi
naka takakai etc.</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">FUKASAKU
Kinji</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1973-</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Conflagration</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Enj?</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ICHIKAWA
Kon</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1958</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Pigs
and Battleships</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Buta
to gunkan</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">IMAMURA
Sh?hei</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1961</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">History of Postwar Japan as Told By a Bar
Hostess</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';" lang="IT">Nippon sengo shi Madamu onboro no seikatsu</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">IMAMURA
Sh?hei</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1970</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Grave
of the Fireflies</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hotaru no haka</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">TAKAHATA
Isao</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1988</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Zero
Focus</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Zero
no sh?ten</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">NOMURA
Yoshitar?</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1961</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Zero
Focus</span></p></td>
<td style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(236, 233, 216) black black rgb(236, 233, 216); padding: 0cm; background-color: transparent; width: 136.1pt;" valign="top" width="181">
<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Zero
no sh?ten</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">INUDO
Ishin</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2010</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Yokohama
Mary</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Yokohama
Mary</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">NAKAMURA
Takayuki</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2006</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Many
of the 'Brutal Tales of Chivalry' series</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sh?wa
Zanky?den, etc.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">SAEKI
Kiyoshi</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1965-</span></p></td></tr>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A
Hole of My Own Making</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Jibun
no ana no naka de</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">UCHIDA
Tomu</span></p></td>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1955</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<p style="" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Roger</span></p></font></div> </body>
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