현대 일본영화를 통해 본 가족규범의 변용 - 고레에다 히로카즈(是枝裕和)의 영화를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study aims to examine the aspects of transformations of the family norms through the scenes of the family represented in contemporary Japanese films. Hirokazu Koreeda is a director who best portrayed the reality about the fragments of the modern family. His career as a film director and a TV documentary director gives a persuasive power to this fact. Most of the films directed by Koreeda since his debut draw families in modern Japan from various angles, taking the family as a subject matter. The reason why the public sympathizes with Hirokazu Koreeda’s films is that they do not directly define the family. He shows the scenes of the family in various forms from diverse perspectives, instead of defining the family repressively in the films. The family realized through films by Hirokazu Koreeda is a type of family formed through sharing of time and space, regardless of whether there are blood relations or not. Breaking from the blood-tied familism still defined as an ideal scene of the family, he reframes the family, inquiring into various issues encountered by the modern family. It is judged that this is an attempt to establish a new perspective for defining the family, not fragmentary information.