This study argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero'
narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon which male genres,
such as the war-retro and yakuza films are based. Two central
questions in relation to these post-war Japanese film genres and
historical consciousness are addressed: What is the relationship
between history, myth and memory? And how are individual
subjectivities defined in relation to the past? The book examines
the role of the 'tragic hero' narrative as a figurative structure
through which the Japanese people could interpret the events of
World War II and defeat, offering spectators an avenue of
exculpation from a foreign-imposed sense of guilt. Also considered
is the fantasy world of the nagare-mono (drifter) or yakuza film.
It is suggested that one of the reasons for the great popularity of
these films in the 1960s and 1970s lay in their ability to offer
men meanings that could help them understand the contradictions
between the reality of their everyday experiences and the
ideological construction of masculinity.
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