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THEME EXPLORATION

consumer culture in postwar Japan

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Conflagration
Conflagration
1958 · Kon Ichikawa
Notting Hill
Notting Hill
1999 · Roger Michell
Tokyo-ga
Tokyo-ga
1985 · Wim Wenders
The Loved One (Tony Richardson
The Loved One (Tony Richardson
1965 · Hal Ashby
Don't Make Waves
Don't Make Waves
1967 · Alexander Mackendrick
Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife
Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife
2014 · Spike Lee
Electro show
Electro show
1966 · Patricio Guzmán
The Emperor
The Emperor
1967 · George Lucas
The Sun's Burial
The Sun's Burial
1960 · Nagisa Oshima
The Geisha House
The Geisha House
1999 · Kinji Fukasaku
Masculin Feminin
Masculin Feminin
1966 · Jean-Luc Godard
Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich
Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich
1929 · Hans Richter
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Yasujirō Ozu → Japan

His films chronicle the everyday lives of middle-class Japanese families navigating modernization and consumer goods in postwar domestic spaces.

Keiichirō Yoshida → Japan

His experimental works interrogate consumer capitalism and mass media's role in shaping Japanese identity during Japan's rapid economic growth in the 1960s-70s.

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