Alienation in Japanese Film

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The paper discusses how the three films; Ichikawa's "Tony Takitani", Sakamoto's "Face" and Hashiguchi's "Hush" are all modernist representations of the alienation that can exist within the modern and young industrialized Japanese society. The paper analyzes the loneliness and alienation as manifested in childhood and adulthood, social class marginalization and capitalistic influence and in the slow acceptance of homosexuality in Japanese society.

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"The dynamics of isolation in Ichikawa's Tony Takitani, Sakamoto's Face and Hashiguchi's Hush are all related in that they are modernist representations of the alienation that can exist within the modern and young industrialized Japanese society. However, their themes are variegated, as the extremes of isolation are all manifested as the fundamental precursor to alienation which manifests and takes on different forms within society, and the diverse conditions from which this isolation and alienation can arise."

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