new "youth film'?

[Stefan Nutz]

Some films that come to my mind (sorry if already mentioned):

- Yoshino's Barber Shop
- Your Friend (also some other of Hiroki's films: Girlfriend, Love On 
Sunday)
- Nagisa

Maybe these films not really qualify for "youth films" - I'd say they are 
more about growing up and would maybe fit more the "coming of age" genre.

Anyway...

best regards,

Stefan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melek Ortabasi" <mortabas at hamilton.edu>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: new "youth film'?


> 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
>
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