[KineJapan] Writing on Ryosuke Hashiguchi

[Alexander Jacoby]

Dear all,

I was teaching Hashiguchi's Hush! last semester and found it went down
particularly well this year; a lot of students either presented or wrote on
the film. Perhaps the theme of alternative family models and the central
themes of a gay man wanting to be a parent and a straight woman wanting to
be a mother without having to be a wife seems particularly interesting at a
time when gay adoption and surrogacy is becoming more widespread in many
Western countries.

But I was struck by how little reading I have to recommend to students
about this film! There is the chapter on Hashiguchi in the Midnight Eye
Guide to New Japanese Film. And there's a short piece that is part of a
chapter in Romit Dasgupta et al, Configurations of Family in Contemporary
Japan. But I wondered if anyone had come across any further published
scholarship on the film, or on Hashiguchi in general, that I might have
overlooked. For the sake of the Film Studies students in the class this
needs to be in English, but I'd also be interested from my own point of
view to know if anyone has written about the film in Japanese.

Best wishes,


ALEX JACOBY
(Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Oxford Brookes University)
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