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... In the postwar period, the Japanese began to rethink about wartime propaganda and the defeat of their nation, hence leading an individual consciousness to surface. ... A study into the representation of women figures in these films would reveal the nature of the suppression of women in Japan: a nation troubled by its maternal past, a society that tolerated incestuous behavior, and a general acknowledgement to sex as a commodity.
The maternal culture has long embedded in the mind of the Japanese. ... The representation of the women figures that we have seen so far indicated the existence of a maternal culture in the Japanese society where men sought protection from and drew support from their counterpart, the women. ...
The Pornographers by Imamura was arguably the single, most important film in which Imamura was able to show by relevance to the 60s the characteristic of an incestuous Japanese society marked by maternalism that could be traced to the origin of Japanese history. ... The representation of madness was an extreme form of criticism aimed at the social system of maternalism where the governing institution formed the basis for a managed society, was to be held responsible for the moral corruption of the mind. ... It was this quality of in the managed society where the Oedipal feeling emerged from. The downside of this approach, however, was not realized until the 70s when the Japanese economy received severe beatings from the dollar devaluation in 71 and the oil crisis in 73. ... in the history of Japanese Cinema where new directions and techniques were pouring in to replace the traditional methods of filmmaking. This was the period where the Japanese cinema experienced a new makeover by Oshima, Imamura and other New Wave directors. ... Some of these directors decided to concentrate on the problem with the emperor system, and some looked at other taboos that were ignored by the masses, while others focused on how to revive a declining Japanese film industry that was suffering from the financial cutbacks by major film studios and that lacked new inspiration necessary to attract younger generations of viewers. ...
It was clear that Japan was a maternal nation and the problems from maternailism led to the confinement of women to the household from the above studies into the Japanese society.
Approximate Word count = 2065
Approximate Pages = 8.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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