AsianForum 150th "Chushingura in Japanese Cinema: A Preliminary Discussio"

Tuesday,February 18,2014

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150th
Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014
14:00-16:00
Conference Room 203/204, Dialogue House 2F

羽鳥隆英 (HATORI Takafusa)
早稲田大学坪内博士記念演劇博物館
(
The Tsubouchi Memorial THEATRE MUSEUM, Waseda University)

「日本映画のなかの《忠臣蔵》:予備的議論」
(Chushingura in Japanese Cinema: A Preliminary Discussion)

From the early 20th century to the mid-1960s, the melodramatic narrative called Chushingura, a dramatization of Genroku
Ako Incident, was repeatedly adapted into films. The persistent popularity and mythic status of Chushingura films are
undeniable. However, film scholars have accumurated little academic works on the significance of Chushingura in Japanese film history. This paper aims at reflecting on film-scholarily promising approaches to Chushingura films for further

Lecture in Japanese

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