Fwd: seeking popular images of bureaucrats

[frye]

I don't think the movie you described is really Ichikawa's Pu-san.

Howard Frye
frye at siservices.net

antoine kilian wrote:

> >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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