Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo by Kyoko Hirano – FB2 download – 9781560984023

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Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo
Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945-1952
by Kyoko Hirano

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• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Format: paperback, 400 pages
• ISBN: 9781560984023 (1560984023)
• Genres: japan, history, film
• Language: english
• Author: Kyoko Hirano
• Release date: March 1, 1994

About The Book

In “Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo,” Kyoko Hirano examines American censorship of Japanese cinema during the occupation of 1945-1952, exposing how the occupation government effectively used the Japanese film industry to serve its own ends: to inculcate ‘democratic’ principles, to guard against a return to militarism, and, ultimately, to create a trustworthy ally in the Pacific. The first history of Japanese cinema under the American occupation, “Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo” makes extensive use of declassified occupation-government documents from Washington and Tokyo, censored screenplays, several hundred films, and interviews with Japanese directors, producers, and writers. Through an analysis of such classics as Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), Hirano reveals that American authorities approved of films that featured baseball, American-style comedy, gunfights, kissing scenes, and Japanese people resisting fascism. She addresses prohibited topics—ritual suicide, gambling, and, above all, criticism of the United States—in discussions of such censored films as “The Japanese Tragedy” (1946) and “Desertion at Dawn” (1950). Illustrated with contemporary photographs and film stills, “Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo” provides an account of the postwar export of American democratic

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