[KineJapan] Films about schooling in Japan during the Alliedoccupation

[gsjohnson at otsuma.ac.jp]

 Some material without subtitles comes to mind but there is the 1952 
Shindō Kaneto drama Genbaku no ko, Child[ren] of the Atom Bomb (I've 
seen it labelled Children of Hiroshima in English) which has English 
subtitles, at least my Japanese DVD does, and portrays a teacher 
returning to Hiroshima several years after the war in search of the few 
pupils who survived. It depicts children in a workhouse orphanage. Not 
necessarily occupation impact, but war impact and occupation era. From 
Hollywood there is the 1956 farce Tea House of the August Moon, in which 
an Occupation officer tries to build a school in Okinawa to educate 
villagers in the American way, as it were. And Hiroshi Kitamura, 
Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of 
Defeated Japan might help. He's very knowledgeable about Japanese film 
of that era, as well. 

Greg Johnson



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Hi All:
I'm doing research on the impact of the occupation on schooling in Japan
--emotional, curricular, programmatic--and am looking for any films that 
reference the occupation in relation to schooling.  The only film I'm 
aware of is MacArthur's Children.  If there are any more people know of 
I would appreciate that information.  Unfortunately I don't understand 
Japanese so I'm limited to subtitled films.  If you know of any fiction 
that does the same please let me know.
Thank you very much.

Best

Malini Schueller  


Malini Johar Schueller
Professor
Department of English
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117310
4008 Turlington Hall
Gainesville, FL  32611-7310
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