Media Term Thursday #8
/Japanese New Wave
A movement of Japanese filmmakers from the late 1950s to the early 1970s who brought a new creative burst in response to traditional Japanese cinema. They challenged traditional mainstream themes and values, and experimented with film styles and conventions to produce work that used sexual violence, radical politics and the aftermath of World War 2.
Examples are Crazed Fruit (1956), Black Sun (1964) and The Blind Beast (1969).
