Article:
After Great Pain. The Uses of Religious Folklore in Kenji Mizoguchi’s SANSHO THE BAILIFF (JP 1954) and Kaneto Shindo’s ONIBABA (JP 1964)

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dc.creatorNg, Teng-Kuan
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T14:06:48Z
dc.date.available2023-11-20T14:06:48Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis article studies the adaptations and applications of religious folklore in two mas-terworks of Japanese cinema: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff, JP 1954) and Kaneto Shindo’s Onibaba (JP 1964). While academic approaches will often draw a strict line between narrative genres and discursive forms, these films, I argue, draw creatively from Japanese tradition for both critical and constructive purposes in the postwar context. Besides mounting trenchant criticisms of Japan’s erstwhile militaristic violence and imperial ambitions, both filmmakers present their respective female protagonists as models for spiritual and sociocultural transformation in the face of anomie. Embodying humanistic compassion on the one hand and ontogenetic eros on the other, the two women compose complementary poles for reconstruction amidst the painful aftermath of war.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.9:2023.2.2
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/20119
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/359/311
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/21342
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
dc.subjectGreat Painen
dc.subjectUsesen
dc.subjectReligiousen
dc.subjectFolkloreen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.subject.personKenji Mizoguchi
dc.subject.personKaneto Shindo
dc.subject.workSANSHO THE BAILIFF
dc.subject.workONIBABA
dc.titleAfter Great Pain. The Uses of Religious Folklore in Kenji Mizoguchi’s SANSHO THE BAILIFF (JP 1954) and Kaneto Shindo’s ONIBABA (JP 1964)en
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local.coverpage2023-11-29T00:37:01
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/359/311
local.source.epage39
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleHere Be Dragons. East Asian Film and Religion
local.source.spage15
local.source.volume9
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local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380846
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