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Department of Asian Languages & Cultures Blood Brothers:
Like the Western gangster film, the Japanese yakuza film has long been a site for the co-articulation of racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, and class differences. Zainichi Koreans (Korean residents of Japan) have played a central role in the development of this genre, especially from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, when the yakuza film was at the height of its popularity and when Japan began to reexamine its (post)colonial past in response to domestic and international crises. This talk looks at three yakuza films from this period dealing with racial tensions and gender anxieties between yakuza and zainichi Koreans. In particular, I discuss how the acts of racial passing and male bonding in these films reflect larger concerns about Japanese identity and masculinity through the bloody body of the zainichi Korean male subject. Christopher D. Scott, Assistant Professor, scottcd@macalester.edu
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