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Category: Film

Film/Occupation

Princess Iron Fan and the origins of Asian animation

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Like most of you (I assume) I knew that Princess Iron Fan 鐵扇公主 (1941) was China’s first full-length animated film. Also like most of you I assume that you...

China/Film/Han Dynasty/Qin

The Last Supper (2012): Xiang Yu Overthrows the Qin in order to…protect Diversity?

Posted on February 4, 2018 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

I’ve been listening to the lectures given by Prof. Ou Fan Leo Lee (李歐梵) for his Coursera course Classics of Chinese Humanities: Guided Readings from the C...

Anecdotes/Film/明治

Delayed Reaction, or, I get mail.

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

In response to my review of The Last Samurai movie, I got the following email yesterday: The text reads: Message From: your mom Message: I read your review of &...

Atrocities/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/Film/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Pedagogy/War/昭和

Memory Politics and Memory Drama

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Jordan Sand’s A Year of Memory Politics in East Asia: Looking Back on the “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan” is immensely timely: I spent a f...

Academia/Film/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Pedagogy/US-Japan

ASPAC 2014 Abstract: Japanese Historical Process in Anglophone Cinema

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

It’s that time of year again, when procrastinators do their taxes, spring cleaning, and summer abstract writing in one weekend! My proposed paper for ASPA...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/Premodern/江戸

Yes, I watched it.

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

As Jamie Noguchi said, I see these movies so you don’t have to: my review of 47 Ronin is up at HNN. As expected, it’s a blazing failure, with few de...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/General/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Modern Japan in Anglophone Historical Fiction

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

ASPAC 2013 Jonathan Dresner Pittsburg State University “But writers of fiction do not stumble onto locales or times: they choose them and they use them to...

Film/Korea/North Korea

Red Chapel Ironies

Posted on February 25, 2013 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

I recently got around to watching the Red Chapel, the unusual guerrilla documentary by the Danish journalist Mads Brügger.1 The basic premise is a visit to Nort...

Academia/Books and Articles/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/martial arts/Memory/Pedagogy/幕末/江戸

Turnbull Book on Ako

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Stephen Turnbull, one of the most prolific and controversial writers on Japanese military history, has written a book on the 47 Samurai incident. The Samurai Ar...

1945-1950/Books and Articles/Film/Korea/US-Korea

Cultural Consumption and Comprehension

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There’s an interesting article up at Japan Focus this week, “Disarming Japan’s Cannons with Hollywood’s Cameras: Cinema in Korea Under U.S. Occupati...

Events/Film/Japan/Museums

Film Festival

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

Just received this from friends at the Japanese American National Museum: The Japanese American National Museum is accepting film & video submissions for th...

Drama/Film

St Sebastian Redux

Posted on October 7, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

At Danwei, a blog you must follow to keep up with China, “Donnie Yen Meditates on Violence” shows the Hong Kong movie star posed as the martyred Sai...

1945-1950/Colonial/Film/General/Korean War/US-Korea

BAKS 2008

Posted on September 14, 2008 by John P. DiMoia / 5 Comments

     I just returned to SG this past weekend from BAKS (British Association Korean Studies) 2008, and wanted to post as the film panel in particular intersects ...

Colonial/Film/Historiography/Korea/Korea-Japan/Military/World

Modernization or Japanization? –The Movie “Homeless Angels” 1941

Posted on July 20, 2008 by sayaka / 0 Comment

I had a chance to watch a Korean movie from the colonial period, called “Homeless Angels (집없는 천사, 家なき天使),” at the Korean Film Archive (KFA) in Susek...

1945-1950/Film/Korea/Nationalism

1949 Banning Japanese Subtitles

Posted on February 1, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

On the second page of the June 25th issue of The Korean Free Press (자유신문 自由新聞) there is a very small article which shows how long the process of eliminating the...

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