Inside a frame, behind a glass. A preliminary inquiry on law and film in Japan

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Law and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/17521483.2020.1729945

Giacomo Calorio, G. Colombo

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper provides both lawyers and cinema experts with some insights about the depiction of law and criminal justice in films in Japan. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest of the Japanese movie industry towards ‘courtrooms drama’, i.e., films set in tribunals and having lawyers, judges, and prosecutors as main characters: a small ‘Golden Age’ of law as depicted in Japanese cinema. This paper (co-written by a comparative lawyer and a film studies specialist) will address this phenomenon from two perspectives: one from a legal studies and popular culture framework, analyzing how such movies reflect – and at the same time shape – the ‘legal imagination’ in Japan. The other, from film studies, focuses on technical, directorial aspects, to emphasize how authors intend to depict the law and its actors.

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在一个框架内，在一个玻璃后面。日本法律与电影初探

本文为律师和电影专家提供了一些关于日本电影中法律和刑事司法描述的见解。近年来，日本电影业对“法庭剧”越来越感兴趣，即以法庭为背景，以律师、法官和检察官为主角的电影：日本电影中描绘的一个小小的法律“黄金时代”。这篇论文（由一位比较律师和一位电影研究专家合著）将从两个角度来解决这一现象：一个是从法律研究和流行文化的框架来分析这类电影如何反映——同时塑造——日本的“法律想象”。另一个来自电影研究，侧重于技术和导演方面，强调作者打算如何描绘法律及其演员。

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期刊介绍： Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law. For this purpose, the arts and humanities disciplines are taken to include literature, history (including history of art), philosophy, theology, classics and the whole spectrum of performance and representational arts. The remit of the journal does not extend to consideration of the laws that regulate practical aspects of the arts and humanities (such as the law of intellectual property). Law and Humanities is principally concerned to engage with those aspects of human experience which are not empirically quantifiable or scientifically predictable. Each issue will carry four or five major articles of between 8,000 and 12,000 words each. The journal will also carry shorter papers (up to 4,000 words) sharing good practice in law and humanities education; reports of conferences; reviews of books, exhibitions, plays, concerts and other artistic publications.