new "youth film'?

[Michael Kerpan]

Actually, Jun Ichikawa made a fairly nice adaption of
Tsugumi way back in 1990.  Morita filmed Kitchen even
earlier (not seen by me, however).

MEK

MEK

--- Melek Ortabasi <mortabas at hamilton.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> OK, not film, but if we're talking about sweetly
> bittersweet stories 
> about youthful collectives (of sometimes a strange
> variety), then 
> author Yoshimoto Banana springs to mind. (Sorry if
> someone mentioned 
> her already). In the literary world, she seems to
> have been the first 
> (though I'm not sure of this) to cash in on the idea
> that young 
> people have their own kind of society -- one which
> isn't necessarily 
> sexy and/or violent. Many of her characters make
> their own 
> collectives/families out of "found people" (as
> opposed to "found 
> objects"). There is also a strong aspect of
> non-sexual love, often 
> between young men and women whom we might otherwise
> expect to develop 
> a more conventional romantic relationship.
> _Kitchen_, _Tsugumi_, etc.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Cheers,
> Melek
> -- 
> Melek Ortabasi, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Comparative Literature
> Hamilton College
> Clinton, NY
>