oxford handbook of japanese cinemaの例文
- Japanese film theorist Daisuke Miyao wrote in his book " The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema " that " The Dragon Painter . . ., a Hayakawa star vehicle . . . was a perfect example of Aoki providing authenticity to the Orientalist imagination of Japan . " He further wrote, " Playing the role of Ume-ko, Aoki provides a sense of authenticity to the stereotypical self-sacrificing Japanese woman like Cio-Cio-San . " The film was praised for successfully reproducing an authentic Japanese atmosphere.
- While referring to the film in particular, the film theorist Kaeriyama Norimasa said " Isn't it a huge loss that Japanese producers don't make any film for export and have all the greatly unique landscape of Japan by foreigners ? " Daisuke Miyao, in " The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema ", states that the film and its narrative of a religion collision " emphasize the difficulty for a Japanese woman to become submissive to Christianity and the American family system ", stating that the film is first and foremost " an archetypal fable pitting the civilized West, embodied by an American sailor, against the primitive East, embodied by the Japanese woman, told as a religious battle between Buddhism and Christianity ".
