Akira Mizuta Lippit
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099845
- eISBN:
- 9789882206731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099845.003.0010
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines Japanese films with themes focusing on the specificity of places—cities, states, worlds, and spaces—and on the relation between particular places and the larger world that ...
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This chapter examines Japanese films with themes focusing on the specificity of places—cities, states, worlds, and spaces—and on the relation between particular places and the larger world that surrounds it, to a “sense of the world.” One example is Yukisada Isao's 2004 Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World, which navigates a complex geography of disparate elements in space, time, history, and memory, developing a mode of transit that takes characters to and from specific times and places in a phantom passage between this world and that other world. As the title suggests, the film invokes a sense of the world, a center of the world, in the form of a sense or affect (love and loss) and a mode of expression, crying, or more accurately, shouting.Less
This chapter examines Japanese films with themes focusing on the specificity of places—cities, states, worlds, and spaces—and on the relation between particular places and the larger world that surrounds it, to a “sense of the world.” One example is Yukisada Isao's 2004 Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World, which navigates a complex geography of disparate elements in space, time, history, and memory, developing a mode of transit that takes characters to and from specific times and places in a phantom passage between this world and that other world. As the title suggests, the film invokes a sense of the world, a center of the world, in the form of a sense or affect (love and loss) and a mode of expression, crying, or more accurately, shouting.
