Talk by Alexander Jacoby
This year’s Japan Foundation touring programme will showcase contemporary Japanese films highlighting a new wave of nostalgia for the past, representing the lifestyles and values of earlier decades. But what were the popular films of those decades actually like, and to what extent were those films representative of the values and tastes of society of the time?
Alexander Jacoby, Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Oxford Brookes University, will provide an informative accompaniment to this year’s Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme Once Upon a Time in Japan, guiding you through Japanese cinema in the 20th century, and showing how Japanese cinema and Japan itself has transformed over the decades.