Title Chinese and Japanese films on the Second World War / edited by King-fai Tam, Timothy Y. Tsu and Sandra Wilson

Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 185 pages) Contents Notes on contributors (starting p. vii) -- Acknowledgements (starting p. ix) -- 1. The Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese film (starting p. 1) / King-Fai Tam -- 2. A genealogy of anti-Japanese protagonists in Chinese war films, 1949 -- 2011 (starting p. 12) / Timothy Y. Tsu -- 3. Film, ethnic minorities, and the Anti-Japanese War: an analysis of The Muslim Detachment and Jin Yuji (starting p. 26) / Han Yanli -- 4. The Sino-Japanese War in Ip Man: from miscommunication to poetic combat (starting p. 40) / Paola Voci -- 5. War, horror and trauma: Japanese atrocities on Chinese screens (starting p. 54) / Kristof Van Den Troost -- 6. Documentaries as historical text: the emergence of the East River Column on Hong Kong television screens (starting p. 67) / King-Fai Tam -- 7. The theme of salvation in Chinese and Japanese war movies (starting p. 79) / Siu Leung Li -- 8. Establishing the genre of the revisionist war film: the Shin-Toho body of post-Occupation war films in Japan (starting p. 93) / Dick Stegewerns -- 9. Wild, wild war: Okamoto Kihachi and the politics of the Desperado films (starting p. 107) / Hiroshi Kitamura -- 10. Japan's longest days: Toho and the politics of war memory, 1967 -- 1972 (starting p. 121) / Harald Salomon -- 11. The Himeyuri film cycle: cultural change and remakes of an Okinawan tragedy (starting p. 136) / Christopher Ames -- 12. What is there to laugh about? University of Laughs as an anti-war film comedy (starting p. 151) / Beng Choo Lim -- 13. A past to be ashamed of or proud of?: echoes of the Fifteen-Year War in Japanese film (starting p. 162) / Marco Del Bene -- Index to films (starting p. 175) -- General index (starting p. 182) Summary "This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, and analysing a wide range of films, it demonstrates the potential of war movies for understanding contemporary China and Japan. It shows how the war is remembered in both countries, including the demonisation of Japanese soldiers in postwar socialist-era Chinese movies, and the pervasive sense of victimhood in Japanese memories of the war. However, it also shows how some Chinese directors were experimenting with alternatives interpretations of the war from as early as the 1950s, and how, despite the "resurgence of nationalism" in japan since the 1980s, the production of Japanese movies critical of the war has continued"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed January 27, 2021) Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war. Motion pictures -- China -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Japan -- History -- 20th century PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. Motion pictures Motion pictures -- Political aspects War and motion pictures China Japan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Tam, King-fai, editor. Tsu, Timothy Y., editor. Wilson, Sandra, 1957- editor. ISBN 9781317650454 131765045X 9781322233222 1322233225 9781317650461 1317650468 9781315763163 1315763168

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