Izutsu Kazuyuki

[Christopher D. Scott]

Alex and others,

?Pacchigi!? is more closely based on Matsuyama Takeshi?s
semi-autobiographical ?Shounen M no Imujingawa? (Youth M?s Imjin River,
2002) and the song ?Imujingawa? (Imjin River), made popular by the group The
Folk Crusaders in the late 1960s.

A more explicit debt to ?Romeo and Juliet? can be seen in the 2001 film ?GO?
(dir. Yukisada Isao), and the 2000 novel on which it?s based, although I
think the Romeo and Juliet-style love story in ?GO,? ?Pacchigi!,? and even
?Gaki teikoku,? Izutsu?s 1981 film about zainichi Koreans and yakuza, is not
as simple or as straightforward as it seems.

If anyone?s interested, I?m giving a talk entitled ?Romeo and Jong-il:
Queering the Korean Diaspora in Japan? at the upcoming AAS meeting in
Boston.

Best,

Christopher Scott
Assistant Professor
Macalester College




Thanks for clarification about the Kitamura film. Now, two questions about
Kazuyuki Izutsu, specifically about Pacchigi which I've not yet had the
chance to see.
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> 1) I know that Pacchigi won the Kinema Junpo Best One. I just wondered which
> other of his films have ranked in the KJ listings, and how high?
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> 2) I've seen Pacchigi described as a reworking of Romeo and Juliet. Is that
> actually acknowledged, in the way that, say West Side Story is specifically a
> reworking of Romeo and Juliet, following Shakespeare's plot closely and with
> equivalents for the main characters? Or is it merely similar, in the sense
> that it's another story about star-crossed lovers?
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> ALEX
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