Kitano's honor
Mark Nornes
amnornes at umich.edu
Mon Aug 30 19:30:32 EDT 2004
On Aug 31, 2004, at 1:33 AM, Jason Gray wrote:
> But once upon a time, Korea was bankrupt of ideas and
> turned to Japan's seishun eiga boom in the 1960s for
> material
As nice to Koreans as they are to Iranians, eh?
I have also heard of Korean filmmakers stopping in Tokyo on a layover
from somewhere else. They check out what's hitting in Japan, and then
go reproduce it back home. The example I heard was an Ozu film! (I'd
love to see if they copied Ozu down to the shot!)
What exactly was going on here? Setting aside Takeshi's setsu about
lack of creativity, we can certainly say it has something to do with
the ban on Japanese films in Korea. Was it simply a stunningly
elaborate version of the remake/rip-off---Batman reproduced in the
Philippines or the Ring in the US? The former example shows how
prestige is borrowed, while the latter is a matter of creativity.
I suppose the first step would be finding out how much people knew
about Japanese cinema despite the ban. And to what degree were these
films coded as foreign, generically or even as adaptations? What does
this say about Japan-Korean relations in pop culture? This hints at a
fascinating relationship between Japanese and Korean cinema beyond the
colonial era and into the days of the embargo.
Anyone looking for a dissertation topic?
Markus
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