Ideal and Cruelty in Children's Gaze --About Kohei Oguri's Muddy River--

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  • SHEN, Nian
    Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

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  • 子どもの視線における理想と残酷 --小栗康平の『泥の河』について--
  • コドモ ノ シセン ニ オケル リソウ ト ザンコク : ササグリコウヘイ ノ 『 ドロ ノ カワ 』 ニ ツイテ

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This paper points out the two-fold nostalgia for the '50s' and the 'Japanese films in the 1950s' in the discourse on Kohei Oguri's "Muddy River". It also brings attention on the danger of interfering with the progress of modernization and the development of cinematic art hidden within that nostalgia. The format of monochrome and Aspect ratio (1.33 : 1), and the beautification of the protagonist called Nobuo and Kiichi seems to be nostalgic at first glance. Yet the gap between Nobuo's point of view shot and that of the director/audience's breaks the solid child image (or ideal self-image), and exposes a hidden harsh reality more explicitly.

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