재일조선인 표상과 시선의 주체: 이마무라 쇼헤이 〈니안짱〉(1959)을 중심으로

Abstract

As a matter of the representation of Zainichi (ethnic minority in Japan) in Japanese cinema, This study focused on Shohei Imamura’s Second Brother (1959) bears a different perspective from the original work. There are several fictitious characters and new, related episodes in Second Brother. Following the difference, this study notices Kanako-Japanese social worker- and Sakada-old Zainichi woman- as fictitious characters and also surveys Japan as a geopolitical condition for Zainichi children’s identity. The fictitious characters from Second Brother connote Japanese ethnic discrimination or the perspective of the adult which cannot reveal itself because the original work had written by children. A gap between Kanako and Zainichi and between Kanako and other Japanese in Second Brother makes rumination on the history of Japanese imperialism that brings about the Zainichi and also there’s today. Sakada, another fictitious, expresses her stance directly as a Zainichi woman who has no choice but to live in Japan. And Takaichi, who is the second brother or the second generation of Zainichi, climbs Bota-Yama (slag heap of coal mine) repeatedly for the sake of getting over the closed conditions of selection. Whenever he expresses the will himself, the Japanese block him and sends him back to the place where they accord to Zainichi as implicit bias. Imamura asks back to Japan, how it is possible and what have to do now in the last scene.