Honami Kawamura
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Spirited Away: An Exploration of Japanese Identity
Spirited Away, awarded the Best Animated Feature Film Academy Award in 2003, is not just a coming-of-age story about a 10 year old girl. It is a film that explores the tension between Japanese tradition and Western modernity without drawing straight lines demarcating that “Japanese” or “tradition” is good, and “Western” or “modernity” is bad. Instead, it complicates these ideas to show that neither one is clear-cut, and suggests that whilst Japan must not forget its roots, these can be reconciled with Western modernity to form a new Japanese identity.
By Honami Kawamura6 years ago in Geeks