The limits of fiction: politics and absent scenes in Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (Furyōshōnen, 1960). A film re-reading through its script

This text proposes an updated analysis of Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (1960) through the director’s theoretical contribution and the re-reading of his script. This film, made within the limits of reality and fiction, was instrumental in the cinematic language of the sixties in Japan. Hani implemented herein a style that he developed during his earlier decade as a documentary maker for Iwanami Eiga studios. Hani based his filmmaking method on a philosophical pragmatism extracted from the practices of an amateur writing called seikatsu kiroku (life document) that appeared in the early 1950s. In fact, Bad Boys is a loose adaptation of Tobenai Tsubasa (Wings that Cannot Fly) an example of seikatsu kiroku consisting of a compilation of experiences written by inmates from the Kurihama reformatory. Hani responded to the demands for a new realism of the time with this film, which he made collectively with the former inmates of that reformatory. Additionally, a close analysis of the script reveals significant ‘absent scenes’ of student demonstrations, which are similar to those Oshima and Yoshida used in 1960. This fact evidences Hani’s shared concern with other filmmakers of the time about the necessities of bringing cinema closer to topical issues

The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945–52 1945-52

This collection features works by Japanese intellectuals written in the immediate postwar period. These writings-many appearing in English for the first time-offer explorations into the social, political, and philosophical debates among Japanese literary elites that shaped the country's literary culture in the aftermath of defeat.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: The Politics and Literature Debate -- 1 Art, History, Humanity -- 2 Second Youth -- 3 Who Are the People? -- 4 The Responsibility of Writers -- 5 An Antithesis -- 6 Establishing Criteria -- 7 Politics and Literature I -- 8 The Humanity of Criticism I -- 9 What Is the "Primacy of Politics"? -- 10 Politics and Literature II -- 11 The Humanity of Criticism II -- II: Contemporaneous Essays -- 12 Rationed Freedom -- 13 The Role of the Writer as National Citizen -- 14 The Social Foundations of a New Japanese Literature -- 15 An Inquiry into War Responsibility in Literature -- 16 Subjectivity in the Creation of a New Literature -- 17 Founding Words -- 18 On Wifely Literature -- 19 On the New Stars and Violets School -- 20 The Logic of Delirium -- 21 A Chart of the Heavenly Bodies -- III: The Afterlives of the Debate -- 22 The Specter of the "Censorship System" -- 23 The Ideology of the Modern and the Problem of the Ethnic Nation -- 24 Literature under the Occupation -- Glossary -- Index -- About the Editors and AuthorsThis collection features works by Japanese intellectuals written in the immediate postwar period. These writings-many appearing in English for the first time-offer explorations into the social, political, and philosophical debates among Japanese literary elites that shaped the country's literary culture in the aftermath of defeat.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries