[KineJapan] Tsunami and heartwake 2011 Av coverage

[Mark Roberts]

Hi Jim,

I guess it depends how you want to approach "disaster". If we go with Sontag, then a lot if sci-fi is essentially about disaster. A fair amount has been written about man-made disasters, and there are of course filmmakers like Tsuchimoto who have dedicated years to filming one, but I gather there is less about "natural" disasters. E.g. Miyazaki's "Kaze tachinu" includes a depiction of the Kanto earthquake, but most criticism of the film hasn't taken that up, instead focusing on the airplane and the war. As for more recent disasters, Fujiwara Toshi notes that the 1995 Kobe quake hasn't been given much attention by documentary filmmakers.

My feeling is that coverage of natural disasters has been rather uneven, though there may be scholarship in Japanese that has taken this up more seriously.

Best,

M.

> On Apr 7, 2014, at 6:34 PM, Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Forgive me butting in here, but I'm curious about a couple of things.
> 
> a) Has much been written about the presentation and portrayal of disaster in Japanese cinema in general, prior to 3/11?
> 
> b) Have specific disasters- like the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 or the 1995 Kobe Earthquake- been heavily represented in contemporary film, also prior to 3/11?
> 
> Can anyone help? Just a couple of brief answers would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
> 
> Jim Harper.
> 
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