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Title

Rising sun, divided land : Japanese and South Korean filmmakers / Kate E. Taylor-Jones.

Author

Taylor-Jones, Kate E

Publication

• London : Wallflower Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Description

v, 253 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive, scholarly examination of the historical background, films, and careers of selected Korean and Japanese film directors. It examines eight directors: Fukasaku Kinji, Im Kwon-teak, Kawase Naomi, Miike Takashi, Lee Chang-dong, Kitano Takeshi, Park Chan-wook, and Kim Ki-duk and considers their work as reflections of personal visions and as films that engage with globalization, colonialism, nationalism, race, gender, history, and the contemporary state of Japan and South Korea. Each chapter is followed by a short analysis of a selected film, and the volume as a whole includes a cinematic overview of Japan and South Korea and a list of suggestions for further reading and viewing.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Im, Kwŏn-t'aek > Criticism and interpretation
• Fukasaku, Kinji > Criticism and interpretation
• Yi, Ch'ang-dong > Criticism and interpretation
• Bīto Takeshi > Criticism and interpretation
• Pak, Ch'an-uk, 1963- > Criticism and interpretation
• Kawase, Naomi > Criticism and interpretation
• Kim, Ki-dŏk, 1960-2020 > Criticism and interpretation
• Miike, Takashi, 1960- > Criticism and interpretation
• Motion picture producers and directors > Japan > Biography
• Motion picture producers and directors > Korea (South) > Biography
• Motion pictures, Japanese > History
• Motion pictures, Korean > History
• Motion picture producers and directors > Japan
• Motion picture producers and directors > Korea (South)

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-234), filmography (pages 235-249), and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : rising sun and divided land -- Cinematic Japan and Korea : a long and turbulent history -- lm Kwon-taek and the march of time -- Film analysis : Chihwaseon -- Fukasaku Kinji and beginning with a bomb -- Film analysis : Battle royale -- Lee Chang-dong and the trauma of history -- Film analysis : Secret sunshine -- The legacy of a violent man : Kitano Takeshi -- Film analysis : Hana-bi -- Twisted histories : Park Chan-wook and the legacy of personal trauma -- Film analysis : Oldboy -- The lone woman : Kawase Naomi -- Film analysis : Shara -- Bad guy : Kim Ki-duk -- Film analysis : Bad guy -- Miike Takashi : welcome to the dark side -- Film analysis : Visitor Q -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780231165860 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231165862 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231165853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0231165854 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780231850445 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
• 0231850441 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 824733608
• SCSB-10603652

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library