Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War

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ID19159463
AuthorsMARCO DEL BENE (corresponding author)
EditorsKing-fai Tam, Timothy Y Tsu, Sandra Wilson (0000-0002-6431-2359)
Year2014
Publication date2014-10-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueChinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315763163
OpenAlexW376205037
Open LibraryOL39594223M
ISBN9781315763163
LanguageEN
Citations received10

The chapter discusses a wide selection of movies from the 1990s onwards to highlight continuity in both the ‘anti-war’ and ‘revisionist’ traditions of postwar Japanese cinema. On the one hand, a nationalist tendency in war movies stresses loyalty, self-sacrifice and the righteousness of the Japanese cause through the use and reuse of such cultural icons as the kamikaze pilots, the battleship Yamato, and the war hero Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku as well as an almost complete erasure of Asian countries/regions from war narratives. On the other hand, a critical stance on the war persists in a small number of movies that address the experience of war-torn China and colonized Korea and the trauma of war in postwar Japanese society

Archaeology · World War II · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · 1939-1945 · china · Japan · Motion pictures · Political aspects · World war, motion pictures and the war

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