“I Have a Responsibility”: The Representation of the Japanese Woman in Koreeda Hirokazu’s Our Little Sister (2015)

• Autor(a) principal: Sá Schat, Ana Luíza
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Câmara, Antônio da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Afro-Ásia (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/45399
• topic: Koreeda Hirokazu; Mulheres; Representação; Koreeda Hirokazu; Women; Representation

This article plans to analyze the representation of women in Our Little Sister (2015), directed by Koreeda Hirokazu. Through film analysis and a literature review, it examines Koreeda’s cinematic work, with a focus on the female characters in Our Little Sister, seeking to identify how changes in family organization over the generations affect women’s roles. Understanding representations as historically situated symbolic elements, this paper attempts to contextualize both movie and filmmaker, also exploring aspects of Japanese society and culture. The article is therefore divided into four sections: first, a discussion of cinema and representation; second, an analysis of issues women face in modern Japan; ending with an analysis of the work in question, through its decoupage and a literature review.