Rising Sun, Divided Land

Japanese and South Korean Filmmakers

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by Kate E. Taylor-Jones

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Asia

Keywords

Japan, Korea, Kinji Fukasaku, Im Kwon-teak, Naomi Kawase, Miike Takashi, Lee Chang-dong, Park Chan-wook, Kim Ki-Duk, Takeshi Kitano

Publishing date

2013

Publisher

Wallflower Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 224 pages
6 ½ x 9 ¾ inches (16.5 x 25 cm)

ISBN

978-0-231-16586-0

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Book Presentation:
Rising Sun and Divided Land provides a comprehensive, scholarly examination of the historical background, films, and careers of selected Korean and Japanese film directors. It examines eight directors: Fukasaku Kinji, Im Kwon-teak, Kawase Naomi, Miike Takashi, Lee Chang-dong, Kitano Takeshi, Park Chan-wook, and Kim Ki-duk and considers their work as reflections of personal visions and as films that engage with globalization, colonialism, nationalism, race, gender, history, and the contemporary state of Japan and South Korea. Each chapter is followed by a short analysis of a selected film, and the volume as a whole includes a cinematic overview of Japan and South Korea and a list of suggestions for further reading and viewing.

About the Author:
Kate E. Taylor-Jones is lecturer in visual culture at Bangor University, Wales. Her research concerns the visual culture of Japan, South Korea, and gender in visual culture. She has published widely on a variety of topics, including colonial Japanese and Korean cinema, cinema and landscape in East Asia, and domestic violence and the sex trade. She is currently working on an AHRC funded monograph study examining the colonial visual culture of Japan (1938–1945).

See the publisher website: Wallflower Press