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232 Pages·2007·4.67 MB·English
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Nightmare Japan Contemporary Cinema 4 Series Editors Ernest Mathijs & Steven Jay Schneider Editorial Advisory Board: Martin Barker (University of Wales-Aberystwyth) Wanda Bershen (Founder, Red Diaper Productions) Mark Betz (University of London, King’s College) David Bordwell (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sean Cubitt (University of Waikato, New Zealand) Roger Garcia (Former Director, Hong Kong International Film Festival) Joke Hermes (University of Amsterdam) Jim Hillier (University of Reading) Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia) Douglas Kellner (University of California-Los Angeles) Soyoung Kim (Korean National University of Arts) Amy Kronish (Consultant in Jewish & Israeli Film) Barney Oldfield (General Manager, Angelika Entertainment) Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University, Canada) Michael Renov (University of Southern California) David Schwartz (Chief Curator of Film, American Museum of the Moving Image) M.M. Serra (Executive Director, Film-Makers Cooperative) J. David Slocum (New York University) Christina Stojanova (University of Regina) Kristin Thompson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Contemporary Cinema is a series of edited volumes and single-authored texts focusing on the latest in film culture, theory, reception and interpretation. There is a concentration on films released in the past fifteen years, and the aim is to reflect important current issues while pointing to others that to date have not been given sufficient attention. Nightmare Japan Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema Jay McRoy Amsterdam - New York, NY 2008 Institutional support: The Centre for Cinema Studies, Department of Theatre and Film, University of British Columbia Illustration cover: Fukasaku Kinji’s Battle Royale (© Tartan Video). Cover design: Pier Post The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 978-90-420-2331-4 ISSN: 1572-3070 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2008 Printed in the Netherlands To Amy, as Always… CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction:‘New Waves’, Old Terrors, and Emerging Fears 1 Guinea Pigs and Entrails: Cultural Transformations and Body Horror in Japanese Torture Film 15 Cultural Transformation, Corporeal Prohibitions and Body Horror in Sato Hisayasu’s Naked Blood and Muscle 49 Ghosts of the Present, Spectres of the Past: The kaidan and the Haunted Family in the Cinema of Nakata Hideo and Shimizu Takashi 75 A Murder of Doves: Youth Violence and the Rites of Passing in Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema 103 Spiraling into Apocalypse: Sono Shion’s Suicide Circle, Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki and Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Pulse 135 New Terrors, Emerging Trends, and the Future of Japanese Horror Cinema 171 Works Cited and Consulted 199 Index 217 List of Illustrations Image 1: Buñuel revisited – Satoru Ogura’s Devil’s 21 Experiment (©Ecclectic DVD Distributors) Image 2: Pseudo-snuff or nostalgic nationalism? Hino 26 Hideshi’s Flower of Flesh and Blood (© Ecclectic DVD Distributors) Image 3: Cannibal Delicacies in Devil Woman Doctor 41 (© Ecclectic DVD Distributors). Image 4: The body at war with itself in He Never Dies 47 (© Ecclectic DVD Distributors) Image 5: Extreme piercing in Naked Blood 54 (Courtesy: beyondhollywood.com) Image 6: Muscle – Video box art (Strand Releasing) 74 Image 7: Sadako’s furious gaze in Nakata Hideo’s Ringu 78 (© Tartan Video) Image 8: Cycles of neglect: a young Yoshimi awaits her 91 mother’s arrival in Nakata Hideo’s Dark Water (Courtesy: beyondhollywood.com) Image 9: A doomed social worker tends to a neglected parent 98 in Shimizu Takashi’s Ju-on: The Grudge (Courtesy: beyondhollywood.com) Image 10: Hoshino Shusuke screams in abject despair in 110 Iwaii Shunji’s All about Lily Chou-Chou (© Home Vision)

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