Social Parasites: The Film Portraits of Contemporary Japanese Youth
Abstract
Mazia sees an analogy between a strong presence of youth films in the contemporary cinema of Japan and the country’s cinematography of the 1950s and 1960s, and points out that the present blossoming of these films is of different nature and can hardly be defined as a coherent trend. The films, speaking in various languages, are made by film directors who are members of various generations and are not signatories of the same manifestoes. What the films share in common is the belief that the young person is the most suitable medium to express critical views on reality because the younger generation is most strongly affected by the crisis Japan has been in since the early 1990s. With lack of promising prospects but a good financial situation, Japanese youths are deprived of the motivation to act, and are losing the aim of life. Lack of commitment is their manifesto of disagreement with reality. The firm majority of contemporary Japanese film heroes are outsiders.
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youth, outsider, Japanese cinemaReferences
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Joanna Maziakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Studentka filmoznawstwa w Instytucie Sztuk Audiowizualnych UJ.
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