Os filmes The City of Lost Souls (2000) de Takashi Miike e Peixinho mágico (2012) de Shōhei Shiozaki têm em comum o tema da vida dos brasileiros no Japão. Ambos foram realizados por diretores japoneses em momentos distintos do contexto da imigração brasileira que ocorre no país desde 1990. Mas apesar de compartilharem um mesmo tema, os filmes apresentam visões estéticas diferentes, que levam a entendimentos contraditórios sobre a convivência entre japoneses e brasileiros no Japão. Este artigo discute como o uso de planos gerais e a continuidade espacial nesses dois filmes expressam essas visões. Os planos gerais são um ponto de partida para a identificar a localização das cenas e ações nos filmes. O objetivo é demonstrar como a construção do espaço diegético e da continuidade espacial proporcionada pela montagem passa a ser constituinte do tipo de relação representada entre estrangeiros e nativos nos filmes. A análise é realizada com base nos espaços representados, suas características históricas e culturais e algumas das implicações políticas dessas representações.
Since the reform in 1990 of the Japanese immigration law, the migration of Brazilian nationals to Japan has undergone several different phases and has contributed in the formation of an ethnic minority community in this country. This dissertation is about the representation of these immigrants in three films produced in Japan: The City of Lost Souls (1999, Takashi Miike), Saudade (2011, Katsuya Tomita) and Goldfish Go Home (2012, Shōhei Shiozaki). By analysing these films, which are distinct aesthetically and were made in two different historical contexts, this research aims at detailing their ideological orientation and bringing more information about their production and aesthetic specificities. All of the analyses presented here have as their starting point the spatial representation in films. By taking into consideration a mobile characteristic of cinema and its relation to architecture (BRUNO, 2016; MELLO, 2014a), I will try to demonstrate how the locations in the films, their historical and emotional backgrounds, as well as how space is represented and realized by the cinematic language contribute in each of those cases to the discourse about Brazilians living in Japan. From a dystopic representation to a utopic one, and also going past a realistic vision of the Brazilians in Japan, the films selected demonstrate how this ethnic minority has been represented in Japanese Cinema during this period.
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