New Books from Japan #9: "The Age of Korean Cinema: Colonial Representations Created by Imperial Japan"

Presenter: 梁仁實 (Yang Insil, Iwate University)

Discussant: Jonathan Glade (University of Melbourne)

In Imperial Japan, many filmmakers, cinema works, and information traversed across the empire. Korean films were screened and “Chosen mono” was produced in the "inner territories." Who watched these Korean films and Korean productions, and how were they perceived? As the war intensified, Korean dialogue was replaced by Japanese, and “respectable imperial subjects” began to appear on the screen. How did the thoughts of directors, actors, cinema operators, and audiences overlap and differ between Koreans and Japanese?

帝国日本では多くの映画人や作品、情報が往来し、内地でも朝鮮映画が上映され「朝鮮物」が作られた。こうした朝鮮映画や朝鮮物は誰に観られ、いかに考えられていたのか。戦時色が強まるにつれ、セリフは日本語に、スクリーンには「立派な皇国臣民」が登場するようになる。監督や俳優などの製作者、映画館経営者、観客の思いは、朝鮮人と日本人でいかに重なり、異なったのか。