Elegant Beast as a Danchi Film --Postwar in Kawashima Yuzo and Danchi--

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  • IMAI, Tsubura
    Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

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  • 団地映画としての『しとやかな獣』 --川島雄三と団地の戦後--
  • ダンチ エイガ ト シテ ノ 『 シ ト ヤ カナケモノ 』 : カワシマ ユウゾウ ト ダンチ ノ センゴ

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze Kawashimaʼs Elegant Beast (1962) in the context of the postwar period, with reference to the contemporary "danchi films" set in the danchi apartment, along with housing discourse and family theory. It has been pointed out that Elegant Beast is consistent with the structure of the danchi and the intention of its residents, the Maeda family. Also, in family theory, the layout of the danchi apartment 2DK is regarded as a spatialized family norm, and the arrangement of the plan and the practice of living have been regarded as being coincided. In analyzing Elegant Beast, this paper focuses on the relationship between space and residents. Because the plan and the practice of living do not match and the person who changes space takes the initiative in this film. The Maeda family, who move to the porous danchi from the "Barrack which leaks out" immediately after the war, maintains its family form by practicing a way of living that collapses after being deprived of initiative in the space. In this film, then, the Maeda family's practice reveals the problem in relation to the family norm of the postwar period.

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