[KineJapan] TV-drama Ashita, mama ga inai

[Yuki Nakayama]

I haven't seen the show yet, but from reading the synopses of the episodes,
I can see how people can find it very upsetting.

What I found interesting was that at the same time there was a controversy
over a new documentary on 311 "ガレキとラジオ" that was chastised for using
"yarase" ( more on it in this article:
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20140305-00000033-flix-movi). I find it
interesting that these two issues over the "authenticity" of the image is
happening at the same time.

Yuki Nakayama
University of Michigan
Screen Arts and Cultures Department
PhD Student



On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Dolores Martinez <dm6 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Aaron, I had a student working on the representations of single mothers
> especially in film and television. I could put ypu in touch with her if
> you'd like some general information. Yours, Lola
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> On Friday, 7 March 2014, Gerow Aaron <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> Related to this, I wonder if anyone has opinions on Dare mo shiranai and
>> if there was similar reception to this - i.e. controversy. Of course it’s a
>> different case since it was a movie and so presumably didn’t have sponsors
>> like a TV show would. Anyway, it’s interesting to me because I heard that
>> was also “based on a true story” (is that right?). I’m not a film expert by
>> any means, so I hope this isn’t an ignorant question. I feel like the issue
>> of the portrayal of child-rearing responsibility being solely the mother’s
>> is similar between the two but I haven’t seen the movie in quite a while.
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>> There were some criticisms of Dare mo shiranai, but the ones I read (in
>> Eiga geijutsu, etc.), had more to do with how Koreeda was fudging with
>> reality while still advertising it as "based on a true story." It was not
>> about problems in the representation of such abandoned children or the
>> services that do or don't take care of them.
>>
>>    Aaron Gerow
>> Professor
>> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
>> Yale University
>> 320 York Street, Room 311
>> PO Box 208236
>> New Haven, CT 06520-8236
>> USA
>> Phone: 1-203-432-7082
>> Fax: 1-203-432-6729
>> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
>> website: www.aarongerow.com
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