new "youth film'?

[Frako Loden]

Other "sweet gentle" youth films are:

Tennen kokekk? (A Gentle Breeze in the Village) (Yamashita Nobuhiro, 2007)
Bokunchi (My House) (Sakamoto Junji, 2003)

Frako Loden
Berkeley, CA



At 8:47 AM -0700 4/24/08, Michael Kerpan wrote:
>Jun Ichikawa's "Ashita no watashi no tsukurikata"
>might be the best example of all of this hypothesized
>"gentle youth-film" category.  For some reason, this
>seems to have gotten next to no notice in the West,
>however.
>
>Another gentle film (albeit with a fantastic/science
>fiction element) that hasn't gottewn sufficient
>attention is the animated "Gril Who Leapt Through
>Time".
>
>One could even include Nana (part one) in this group
>(though the characters are post-HS). Other
>manga-derived films possibly relevant -- Touch, Rough,
>Yellow Tears.
>
>Then there are some fundamentally sweet films films
>that feature girls with health problems -- Josee, the
>Shark and the Fish and Midnight Sun.
>
>I wonder whether some of the inspiration for these
>films came from Korea. Jeong Jae-eun's 2001 Take Care
>of My Cat starred BAE Doo-na -- who became the central
>character in Linda Linda Linda.
>
>Michael Kerpan
>Boston, MA
>
>--- David Desser <desser at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>>  I've been wondering if any critic or critical
>>  consensus, in Japanese or in
>>  English, has arrived at a genre classification for
>>  something like the sweet
>>  youth films typified (and perhaps begun?) by Yaguchi
>>  Shinobu with Waterboys
>>  (2001).  I can think also of Yaguchi's Swing Girls,
>>  Yamashita's Linda Linda
>>  Linda and Lee Sang-il's Hula Girls.  Are these, some
>>  based on true stories,
>>  kind of antidotes to the semi-horror (or actual
>>  horror) films that are also
>>  youth-oriented, from Suicide Club to Pulse (Kairo),
>>  etc?  And can anyone
>>  tell me if there are other of these gentler films
>>  beyond those I've
>>  mentioned?
>>
>> 
>>
>>  Thanks in advance.
>>
>> 
>>
>>  David Desser
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