A cyborg detective hunts for a malfunctioning sex doll that turns
itself into a killing machine. A Heian-era Taoist slays evil
spirits with magic spells from yin-yang philosophy. A young
mortician carefully prepares bodies for their journey to the
afterlife. A teenage girl drinks a cup of life-giving sake, not
knowing its irreversible transformative power. These are scenes
from the visually enticing, spiritually eclectic media of Japanese
movies and anime. The narratives of courageous heroes and heroines
and the myths and legends of deities and their abodes are not just
recurring motifs of the cinematic fantasy world. They are pop
culture's representations of sacred subtexts in Japan. Japanese
Mythology in Film takes a semiotic approach to uncovering such
religious and folkloric tropes and subtexts embedded in popular
Japanese movies and anime. Part I introduces film semiotics with
plain definitions of terminology. Through familiar cinematic
examples, it emphasizes the myth-making nature of modern-day film
and argues that semiotics can be used as a theoretical tool for
reading film. Part II presents case studies of eight popular
Japanese films as models of semiotic analysis. While discussing
each film's use of common mythological motifs such as death and
rebirth, its case study also unveils more covert cultural
signifiers and folktale motifs, including jizo (a savior of
sentient beings) and kori (bewitching foxes and raccoon dogs),
hidden in the Japanese filmic text.
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