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War and Nationalism in Yamato: Trauma and Forgetting the Postwar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Andrew Gerow
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In many ways, Hollywood sets the tone for global cinema, at least of the blockbuster variety that big-budget war movies must almost inevitably become to justify their huge budgets. After 1998, many countries tried to produce their own Saving Private Ryan. Canada has the 2008 World War I melodrama Passchendaele. Russia, grappling with issues of national identity in the decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, has the “Great Patriotic War” epic The Star (2002). South Korea's Brotherhood (2004) was an attempt to understand the fraternal violence of the Korean War. While each of these national epics presents an account of war coherent with that country's memory culture, visual and narrative nods to Saving Private Ryan are evident in each.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Special Issue S3: Course Reader No. 3. War in Japanese Popular Culture , January 2012 , pp. 103 - 113
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