Japanese war memories in popular film : memorialising victimhood and agency in post-war Japan

• Main Author: Guay, Eik Kar
• Other Authors: Hallam Stevens
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::Japan
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73532
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This papers aims to explore how popular Japanese war films have memorialized the Japanese experience of World War Two, and in the process mediated Japanese war memories to the post-war generation today. The nature of Japanese war memories during the post-war was conditioned by a strong sense of nati...