Japanese television drama

Proximity and Cultural Distance As Japanese economy soared, its media products such as manga, TV shows, movies and music spread out across Asia. Especially, the young people in Asia began to embrace Japanese culture rather than the culture from the most dominant culture exporter- the United State, and this phenomenon was analyzed by Koichi Iwabuchi in his Feel Asian Modernities. His account of this intra-regionalization in Asia is cultural proximity that Japanese culture shares intimate similarities

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC from 1963 to the present day. The programme depicts the adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord— a space- and time-travelling humanoid alien. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-travelling space ship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. He is accompanied by companions, and he combats a variety of foes while working

We are well within the one-week countdown mark to possibly one of the most hyped series of Doctor Who in the show’s five-decade history. On the face of it, the series looks to be like any other. One with lots of monsters, mystery and adventure. Also with the important point of it being another Moffat series to add to his collection (which isn’t a terrible collection at that). So, what makes Series 9 that much more gripping, even before it airs? What have got Whovians the world over raving about

of The World, it’s no surprise that Japanese television erupted over time. In chapter ten of, “A Geek in Japan,” the main focus is Japanese cinema. It introduces a familiar, but new world of entertainment filled with action, adventure, and melodramas. This paper will reflect on Japanese dramas and their storytelling, ass well as marketing and production. After skimming through Garcia’s A Geek in Japan, this paper will dig deeper into the world of Japanese dramas. Considering it’s 2018, most people

introducing an inaccurate knowledge; in contrast, a theory solidifies people’s views when it supports people’s established views. For example, filial piety is a dominant value in Japanese culture that encourages young people to loyally follow their elder masters (Confucius 3). This theory destabilizes people’s views of Sushi, a Japanese traditional cuisine, because it denies people’s views of Sushi by introducing an inaccurate knowledge of Sushi. Meanwhile, the theory of gender equality solidifies people’s

differences between Japanese culture and the culture of the United States. While animation is usually made for the sole purpose of entertainment for children in the United States, Japanese animation, also known as anime as it is referred to both in Japan and in the West, is a form of media that is enjoyed by people of all ages. Unlike the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and SpongeBob Square pants, both very popular American animations shows in their times, anime focuses more on drama and other non childlike

film market in Asia”(Segers 14). Korean TV dramas also floods the daily programming of free-to-air TV stations and even become part of the routine viewing habits of their respective audiences(Beng 2). Starting with What Is Love All About and Stars in My Heart in the late 1990s, and Winter Sonata and Dae Jang Geum in recent years, Korean television drama and its stars such as Bae Yong Jun and Lee Young Ae, have attracted Asian audiences. Korean TV dramas were dubbed into Mandarin in Taiwan in 2004

huge hit in China and Japan in mid 1990s. Two dramas, What Is Love About (1997) and Stars in My Heart (1999), are usually credited with kickstarting the Korean wave (Huat, 2012). In the early to mid-2000s, two more dramas, Winter Sonata (2002) and Dae Jang Geum (2003), catalyzed the Korean wave by shattering ratings records, not only in South Korea, but also in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam (Chen, 2016). In Japan, the single Korean drama that made a huge impact was Winter Sonata starring

have little to no happy memories of my childhood up till my sophomore year in high school. I closed the doors to society and stayed home. Oddly enough, it was then, when I started to change. At the time, my older brothers had a fascination with a television show called, Naruto. Therefore, I would always sit in the living room and watch with them. The show was interesting because it was different from the normal children shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Rugrats, and The Powerpuff Girls. It was mature

T Over the past decades, an increasing amount of cultural products such as television dramas, movies, animations and pop music have gained immense popularity among Asian countries, especially in Mainland China since the Chinese economic reform in the early 1980s.  E Popular culture is often referred to as a ‘mass culture’, ‘a cultural phenomenon’ and ‘a sphere of capitalist activities’ (Fung, 2007; Chua, 2007), with the capacity to transcend national boundaries and delimitate political tensions.