Kirsten Cather
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824835873
- eISBN:
- 9780824871604
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824835873.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter focuses on the Black Snow trial, which established a revised template that took into account both the existence of a self-regulatory body like Eirin for film, as well as the inherent ...
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This chapter focuses on the Black Snow trial, which established a revised template that took into account both the existence of a self-regulatory body like Eirin for film, as well as the inherent differences between the media of literature and film. Given that Black Snow is a politically and sexually explicit film about prostitutes set on the outskirts of a U.S. military base in Tokyo, the trial illuminates the complex relationship between regulating sex and regulating politics, and also between state censorship and Eirin censorship. The contentious preproduction censorship negotiations between the film’s director, Takechi Tetsuji, and Eirin influenced both the production of the film itself and its postproduction censorship trial by the state.Less
This chapter focuses on the Black Snow trial, which established a revised template that took into account both the existence of a self-regulatory body like Eirin for film, as well as the inherent differences between the media of literature and film. Given that Black Snow is a politically and sexually explicit film about prostitutes set on the outskirts of a U.S. military base in Tokyo, the trial illuminates the complex relationship between regulating sex and regulating politics, and also between state censorship and Eirin censorship. The contentious preproduction censorship negotiations between the film’s director, Takechi Tetsuji, and Eirin influenced both the production of the film itself and its postproduction censorship trial by the state.
