Life is Beautiful Set in rural Japan during the Japanese Army’s invasion of China near the beginning of World War II, Gail Tsukiyama’s novel tells the story of Stephen, a young Chinese man who is sent to his family’s summer home to recover from tuberculosis. During his stay, Stephen develops friendships with three older residents and a beautiful Japanese girl. Throughout the course of The Samurai’s Garden , Gail Tsukiyama uses the character of Sachi and her experiences with her garden and meeting Michiko to illustrate the idea that true beauty is revealed in one’s character by their actions and not just looks. Sachi, a beautiful woman with leprosy learns that true beauty is deep within and is not what appears on the surface, she understands
The Cultural Influences in Japanese Horror Film and Its American Remake (A case study of Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) and The Grudge (2004)) Abstract: Hollywood has produced a number of remakes of Asian horror films, especially Japanese horror films. As the remake is embodies the cultural aspects or American point of view, this research is conducted to see the cultural differences between Japanese horror film and its Hollywood’s remake. Using Joseph Champoux 's observational model and David Edelstein’s Hollywood adaptation rules, this research will identify the specific cultural elements in both movies. The result is separated into two subdivision where the cultural aspects of both country is depicted in both films; the clear explanation of the cause of
The stories of I Hotel are very much like that of the Asian American Movement. The structure of the book is also written like a documentary portraying what happened. For example, on chapter 3 (Yamashita 36-50), the paragraph structure changed, from a narrative style to an interview. The first part of the book, 1968: Eye Hotel tells the story of Paul, a college Chinese American who lives in Chinatown Los Angeles, and his involvement in the Asian American movement within his college along with his mentor Chen and his friend Edmund. On page 29, Paul attends the Japanese American Citizens League banquet to protest.
When I was asked to write about an instance of intercultural communication in a movie, Arrival was not the first thing that came to mind. However, once I had thought about it, I could not get it out of my head, and I knew I had to write about it. The reason behind my determination was that though the parties involved in the conflict are unusual—humans versus extraterrestrial beings—, Arrival still addresses very important issues that could arise during any intercultural communication. This paper will look at the reasons behind this conflict, namely our fear of the unknown, and our tendency to rely on stereotypes and to reflect our negative traits onto the other side. While doing so, it will also briefly touch upon the communicational issues within the human community, caused by the different frameworks through which they look
Then, she starts to talk to Travis and his little brother. After many different occurrences of the same scenario, she ends up going on a date with "Travis". The main character's awkwardness is the major trait that attracts Bob to
In the second part of this essay, I will be reflecting on a recent film and how it was inspired by postwar Japanese cinema. The military took charge of the government and in turn dictated the local film policy by producing propogandic films. The Motion Picture Law was formed and when foreign films entered Japan, they suffered badly by going through a lot of cuts. The law also put a curb on these foreign films if they are found to be democratic and of different ideology.
Gelb’s film centers on Japanese culture and Varda’s film centers on French culture. Varda chooses to
Knowing how to interact with people of other cultures has become an increasingly important issue as international communication and travel becomes more common. With more interactions between cultures, cultural misunderstandings become more common. The satirical book Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb attempts to address this issue, pointing out what people often do wrong. Fear and Trembling is a story which follows Amélie, a young Belgian woman who goes to work for a Japanese company and struggles to fit in, committing many cultural faux pas along the way. Nothomb uses contrasting sentence structure between Amélie 's thoughts and her dialogue and actions to demonstrate the way that Westerners often ignore other cultures despite knowing better because they view themselves as more important.
A right mixture of elements both from Taiwanese and American perspectives is one of the reasons contributing to the great success of The Wedding Banquet, like what the director Ang Lee always jokes that his filmmaking style is ‘Yasujiro Ozu meets Billy Wilder.’ The movie is neither purely Asian American nor purely Chinese but is a hybrid movie that serves to connect the two cinemas. Different from regular Hollywood film, The Wedding Banquet is uniquely featured with Taiwanese characteristics. It is produced in Taiwan, starring the Taiwanese actor Sihung Lung, who is the father of Wai Tung and showing the Confucian family facing different challenges. The Wedding Banquet forms what has been called Lee 's "Father Knows Best" trilogy, on top of Ang Lee’s other two movies: Pushing Hands and and Eat Drink Man Woman.
Storytelling has been a part of people's’ lives since the beginning of time. It started with just verbal communication, then it was translated into written word, and now there hundreds of ways to tell those same stories. Movies and books, for example, are two very different ways to tell stories to an audience. A story can be a book, but not a movie or vice versa. Many books are made into movies, but lose major elements in translation.
Hirabayashi is a Nisei, and he was born in the United States. He chose to go back to American after he studied in Japan for eight years. The reason that Hirabayashi wanted to go to Japan to study because his parents wanted their children to be exposed to Japanese language and culture. On the other hand, the Japanese culture influence to Hirabayashi’s parents and some discrimination from the Native American makes Hirabayashi only plays with the other Nisei after school. Hirabayashi had two close Japanese friends, and these two friends had been to Japan before.
Throughout time, literature has had the power to connect readers around the world by providing them with insight into different cultures. Readers may come together by analyzing different texts and how they represent different backgrounds and give readers from a different culture a new perspective. Matsuo Bashō, a haikai master, provided readers with an insight into Japanese culture by depicting his travels around Japan in his work “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”. In the text, Bashō depicts his journey with the use of prose and haiku. Most importantly, Bashō educates readers by demonstrating the Japanese culture’s value for impermanence, the idea that time is transient.
In Lost in translation, critics (Haslem; Allsop; Paik; Klawans 34) agreed that the two main protagonists are both foreigners abroad and their present marriage and relationship problems adto their feeling of alienation from the present location and surrounding culture. This is an aspect Shanghai Story shares with Coppola’s films as well as with Curtiz’ Casablanca. In Lost in Translation, the couple’s alienation is amplified by their problematic family and marriage situations, causing them to sympathize with each other and develop a close personal relationship. In Casablanca, their shared history and the state the World is in at the moment (World War II) that bring the couple together and allows them to share a romantic desire. In both instances, the luxury of romantic encounters and friendly relationships are allowed and granted to them only because of the exotic locations and the situation they find themselves in.
The film Lost in Translation follows two Americans visiting Tokyo during important transitional periods in their lives. Charlotte is a recent college graduate trying to figure out her career while also moving on from the honeymoon phase of her new marriage. Bob Harris is an actor essentially going through a mid-life crisis as he sorts through life post-movie stardom and struggles to maintain a relationship with his overbearing wife. The two find each other in a hotel bar as a result of their inability to sleep and form a connection based on their mutual isolation in both their relationships and the city of Tokyo. The film touches on the importance of communication as well as what it is like to be a foreigner alone in a vastly different culture.
The film Lost in Translation follows two Americans visiting Tokyo during important transitional periods in their lives. Charlotte is a recent college graduate trying to figure out her career while also moving on from the honeymoon phase of her new marriage. Bob Harris is an actor essentially going through a mid-life crisis as he sorts through life post-movie stardom and struggles to maintain a relationship with his overbearing wife. The two find each other in a hotel bar as a result of their inability to sleep and form a connection based on their mutual isolation in both their relationships and the city of Tokyo. The film touches on the importance of communication as well as what it is like to be a foreigner alone in a vastly different culture.
