소설의 영상화에 나타난 문화 소외의 문제 —『고(GO)』의 한일합작영화를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the aspects of cultural ideology in adaptation through the variation of GO, a novel by Kaneshiro Kazuki. The subject was raised as an issue in the study because the novel was intertwined with the historical layers of Chosun-Japanese. Although the director has the hero introduce himself as "Korean-Japanese," the focus was strictly placed on North Korea in depicting Korea in Japan. In fact, the movie shows the distorted, violent, and irrational aspects of Chosun-Japanese, who are consolidated around the Chosun School as a huge culture group to follow North Korea. Thus there is no history of "the past" in which Chosun-Japanese were discriminated as the people of colonized Korea in the movie even though the original novel definitely describes it. The movie reeks with criticism of the isolated culture of "the present" that's created by the prejudices of Japanese people. The director doesn't forget to include silent directions to ask Chosun-Japanese to conform to the massive world of tolerance called Japan. Even if the movie was truthful to the original novel in adaptation, it ended up alienating the culture of Chosun-Japanese basically by showing details that distorted the truth symbolically. The fact that cultural ideology works in the variation process of novel into film reveals the unique aspect of adaptation between Korea and Japan.