1949 Banning Japanese Subtitles
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...
Category: Film
Worth Noting
John Dower kicks off the American Historical Association’s Perspectives newsletter’s new “Masters at the Movies” series with a review an...
EALA Update: Yonsei Library and Korean Film Archive
I have added two entries to the East Asian Libraries and Archives wiki here at Frog in a Well. Yonsei University Central Library I have so far only made a few r...
Akutagawa the Pacifist
Japan Focus has expanded its mission one more time, this time to include new literary translations! They’ve published a Jay Rubin translation of an Akutag...
Empire in Sonny Chiba’s Shōrinji Kempō
I just watched an old 1975 movie with Sonny Chiba in it called Shōrinji Kempō 少林寺拳法 (the English title, inexplicably is “The Killing Machine”) which...
Koguryŏ on the box
I know I’m way behind the times on this subject as it was already brought up at the Marmot’s Hole weeks ago, but I’d like to put out a call fo...
4.19 and 5.18: spot the difference
In lieu of actually providing some original content myself (soon…), can I point our patient readers once again toward the excellent blog Gusts of Popular ...
Cinema, nationalism, and nostalgia
I have just finished reading a new book on Korean cinema (New Korean Cinema, New York: NYU Press, 2005, edited by Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Springer). It was a sa...
The Wushe Incident on Film
Kerim at his blog Keywords alerts us to a film, currently under production, that reconstructs the Wushe Incident (霧社事件), the famous aboriginal Taiwanese rebelli...
Article Nine on Film
Kei Yamamoto, writing for the citizen newspaper JANJAN, has reviewed the film Japan’s Peace Constitution (邦題 『映画 日本憲法』). The film is directed by John Junk...