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English/Film/Historiography/Japan/Okinawa/War/昭和

Worth Noting

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

John Dower kicks off the American Historical Association’s Perspectives newsletter’s new “Masters at the Movies” series with a review an...

Film/Frog in A Well/Korea/Libraries

EALA Update: Yonsei Library and Korean Film Archive

Posted on August 20, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

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...

Cultural/English/Film/Historiography/Japan/Literature/Pedagogy/Translation/大正

Akutagawa the Pacifist

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

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...

China-Japan/English/Film/Korea-Japan/Memory/Occupation/War/昭和

Empire in Sonny Chiba’s Shōrinji Kempō

Posted on November 5, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

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...

Cultural/Film/Koguryo/Korea/Media/Nationalism

Koguryŏ on the box

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Owen / 6 Comments

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...

1960s/Film/Korea/Korea-Japan/US-Korea

4.19 and 5.18: spot the difference

Posted on April 24, 2006 by Owen / 2 Comments

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 ...

Art/Cultural/English/Film/Gender/General/Japan/大正/昭和

Because we must…

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

If it isn’t ninja, it’s geisha. Yes, the weekend following the 64th anniversary of Pearl Harbor is the perfect time for “spectacularly unfortu...

Academia/Books and Articles/Cultural/Film/General/Korea

Cinema, nationalism, and nostalgia

Posted on November 23, 2005 by Remco Breuker / 4 Comments

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...

English/Film/Japan/昭和

The Wushe Incident on Film

Posted on August 5, 2005 by tak / 1 Comment

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...

Books and Articles/Film/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Political/War

Article Nine on Film

Posted on July 19, 2005 by tak / 0 Comment

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...

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