한･일 영화 비교 연구: 미조구치 겐지의 「수치의 거리」와임권택의 「티켓」을 중심으로

Abstract

This study is a comparative analysis of director, Kenji Mizoguchi’s film “A Street of Shame” and director, Im Kwon-taek’s “Ticket.” This examines how the lives and real situations of prostitutes, which make the points of contact in two directors’ world of video, intervene and oppress them in their lives. The purpose of this study is to free from the evaluations of the similarities between the two director’s works based on the sentimental elements of the existing Japanese critics but to analyze the differences. “Street of Shame” and “Ticket” are similar in that they depict women, but unlike “Street of Shame”, “Ticket” describes the structural problems of Korean society in which women cannot but fall into the trap of prostitution. Also, unlike “Street of Shame”, which says that the tragic nature of women’s lives is an individual’s destiny, “Ticket” has stories in which intervene current realities showing the shadow of Korean society and using the tragic nature of women trapped in it. Therefore, the differences between two works may reflect the situation of the society in which the texts exist, but it can be seen that the differences stem from the directors’ different viewpoints on women. In addition, the expectations of this study can be extend to gender approaches through the lives and status of prostitutes in both countries, and opportunities examining the characteristics of both countries’ pursuing public arts.