films for my master's thesis

[Aaron Gerow]

> Additionally, if you can recommend other films on the topic, that 
> information is also welcome (I have a copy of Yukisada Isao's GO, but 
> little beyond that).

There are lots of such films in recent years, but not all are available 
readily in the US. Here are a few you can get:

Yamamoto Masashi's JUNK FOOD, or from Japan:  Tenamonya Connection or 
Atlanta Boogie

Many Miike Takashi films, especially the Black Society trilogy, the 
Dead or Alive trilogy, City of Lost Souls (Hyoryugai), etc.

Some Fukasaku Kinji films like Yakuza Graveyard.


For other films that exist, some of which you can get in HK or in Japan 
with English subtitles:

Iwai Shunji's Swallowtail Butterfly (I have any essay on this in 
Censoring History)

Many of Zeze Takahisa's films such as Moon Child (available in the US), 
Kagai jugyo: Boko, Rush!, SF Whip Cream, etc.

Otomo Katsuhiro's World Apartment Horror

Some of Yanagimachi Mitsuo's films like Ai ni tsuite Tokyo

Oguri Kohei's films like Kanako no tame ni and Nemuru otoko.


There are a lot of films that deal with Okinawa and Okinawans, and you 
can find a list of such films in my article in Islands of Discontent.

There are also a number of films dealing with gays in Japan, especially 
films by Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Oki Hiroyuki, and the film Okoge.

If you want to include documentaries, both the 2003 version (on 
Okinawa) and the 2005 version (on zainichi) of the Yamagata Documentary 
Film Festival did retros on minority representations in Japanese film 
(and not all documentary: some fiction films as well).

Then one could go back to the wartime and representation of other 
Asians. Look at Markus's US-Japan Media Wars for help there.

There are probably a whole bunch that slipped my mind right now, but it 
seems to be a popular topic for research these days, so just doing some 
article searches will help you find some some other titles. If you can 
read Japanese, Yomota Inuhiko's writings are a good place to start.

Aaron Gerow
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Program
Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
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