Fwd: seeking popular images of bureaucrats

[antoine kilian]

>From: Guven Peter Witteveen <wittevee at pilot.msu.edu>
>
>To the readers of H-Japan and EASIANTH:
>
>I am beginning an ethnographic study of the culture of city hall in a
>regional Japanese town. In connection with the fieldwork I would like to
>provide a wider context by drawing on images and expressions of (local)
>government and bureaucracy found in the popular imagination. Things like
>main characters of film, tv series, anime, literature are what I am 
>looking
>for. An example from the 1950's is Kurosawa's _Ikiru_.

I suggest you to look for a film by ICHIKAWA Kon called Poo-San (in english, Mr Poo), 1953, about a man who tries to get a contract in a city where he has a small company that collects shit from cisterns, and is abused by the wealthypoliticians ; the film ends up in a manga-like scene where he throws shit by the paddle at the people who cheated him, the city hall, etc...

Yours, antoine kilian

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