Japanese films

Japanese cuisine and its development Rice serves with vegetable, and fish are the main traditional meal in Japanese cuisine. According to Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature: “Lunch: 3 bowls rice gruel, half of bonito sashimi (half because it contained some fly eggs). Had the little yellowtail bought for supper made into sashimi, but did not eat it as it wasn’t nice. 1 bowl miso soup, 3 pieces of rice cracker, one helping shaved ice with lemon syrup” (Aoyama 15). Aoyama shows in these lines

Sara Rutherfurd Takakura-Sensei Japanese 1 09 August 2017 Culture Report: The Shokunin Influence The 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi by the American director David Gelb is about an 85-year old sushi master named Jiro Ono and his Michelin 3-star rated restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro in a Tokyo subway station. Like many films about food, Jiro Dreams of Sushi shows artfully arranged and delicious-looking sushi with a tasteful background of classical music. Naturally, after watching a movie about

somewhere on the screen that translate foreign language. Whether or not an anime has subtitles has proven its importance amongst its western fans. Anime is Japanese made so for other countries like the United States to be able to watch it without any prior knowledge of their spoken language it must either have subtitles added in or translate the japanese to the native language of said group by recording also known as dubbing. Many people in the western culture begin by watching dubbed anime as children

Calligraphy- Calligraphy allows self expression make-up brushes- Pottery- Thesis: The Japanese aesthetics of irregularity and simplicity manifest in the artistic creations in calligraphy, make-up brushes and pottery. Through an examination of the both the process by which these items are created as well as the final object made, the soul and personality of the creator emerges. Paragraph 1:Caligraphy– Irregularity Each Japanese Calligrapher reveals a part of their soul through each unique stroke. A message

Yasumasa Morimura (born in 1951, Japan) has had a career in film-making and conceptual photography for over three decades. Morimura uses costumes, makeup props and digital manipulation to create an almost replica of the original artwork, replacing the original subject with himself. Morimura graduated from the Kyōto City University of Arts in 1978 and then became an assistant at that same university. During his time working he experimented with many mediums and styles including painting, photography

Based on the homonymous book by Mitsuyo Kakuta, Hanging Garden is Toshiaki Toyoda's best movie to date. The Kyobashis appear to be a regular family of four members: Eriko, the mother, retains a part time employment in a restaurant, otherwise busying herself with housekeeping; Takashi, the father, is a regular salary man; the two kids, Mana and Ko, 16 and 14 years old respectively, are students. What makes the family special is that they have agreed, following an initiative of Etsuko's, not to have

for bustling cities, bullet trains, a rich history of samurai, and wacky popular culture. Two facets of Japanese popular media that have exploded onto a global scale are manga and anime. The western world considers manga “Japanese comic books and graphic novels considered collectively as a genre” 1. In Japan however, manga refers to any sort of comic style work, whether produced in Japan by Japanese people or otherwise. The term anime (an abbreviation for animation), as defined in the west, indicates

1.0 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to study a sub-culture by conducting an oral interview with a group of people who belong to a particular cultural group. This interview is carried out to understand their perception of the sub-culture. The people chosen for this oral interview are Helen Xu who comes from China and Hana Yamata who comes from Japan, and both of them are big fans of Korean culture. In order to present their experiences of Korean Wave, this paper will be divided into four

In the early 19th century, there was an increase of Japanese immigrating across the states. The first wave of Japanese immigrant settled in Kingdom of Hawaii where they were hired as contract laborers and worked in plantations. The second wave of immigrant came to California in the1890s. According to Kitano, the census identified more than 110,000 Japanese on the West Coast by 1920. To elaborate, the Japanese immigrants came as single males, and employment for them consisted of physical difficult

narratives of “romance, dreams, family and community” (Mandujano-Salazar 11). In the recent years, the landmark has been romanticised or iconised in popular culture, getting featured in climactic scenes from national television and mainstream commercial films such as Godzilla. The visual of the landmark conjures up the “overwhelming myth” (Barthes 239), inducing spectators with positive and, at times dream-like connotations. In relation to this, reading Tokyo panoramically has heeded tourism in Japan. Despite