How do cultural conflicts with Japan are shown in contemporary American movies?

Perceptions of Japanese Culture in Contemporary American Movies

In the decade of the 80s the American public as well as the rest of the world who patronize Hollywood movies , was treated to a plethora of Japanese inspired movies . Movies like Black Rain on the other hand offers a deeper look at Japanese society and culture . These and more will be used to analyze the reaction of American moviemakers as to what they perceived in the 80s . Yet , even in the 21st century one can still see traces of conflicts in understanding Japanese culture

as viewed from the American perspective

Cinematic Experience

In the movie Black Rain , Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia 's character were in pursuit of a criminal . The chase led him to the land of the samurai . In his adventure there , he was able to come face to face with the modern samurai warrior but this time with a criminal bent . There was nothing like the Yakuza or Japanese Mafia in the long experience of the veteran American cop Nick (Douglas ) and his young counterpart Charlie (Garcia

The cultural difference was played out in the necessity to adjust their American style of solving crimes . In the movie they have to make a lot of compromising with a lot of people to get the job done . At the same time the American were introduced into a more ruthless and bizarre criminal mindset

The Rising Sun film starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes presented the nuances of the Japanese culture . And like the movie Black Rain it tells the audience that in to get what you want in dealing with the Japanese one has to be acculturated first . This means understanding Japanese culture and to go deeper into comprehending why they behave in such a manner . Just like in Rising Sun , Sean Connery 's character was always reminding his protygy that when it comes to Japanese society what one sees on the surface is not really what is happening deep down where it matters

Japan in the 80s

The significant number of Japanese inspired films does not happen in a vacuum . This means that there was something in that decade that made film producers to go ahead with movies like Die Hard ' which was interesting enough to catapult Bruce Willis to superstardom

The explanation for such interest in the Japanese way can be partially understood by way of economics . Banno Junji , in a well-researched work about Japanese society and politics made the following remarks , It is a historical fact that by the 1980s , Japan had become an economic giant second only to the United States . Many predicted that this economic strength would continue in the 1990s and then [ .] Japan would surpass the USA in economic terms (1997 ,

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The screenplay for the Rising Sun ' film was adapted from a novel The movie gave more emphasis on the crime scene investigation and the plot thickened into a political thriller . But the author of the novel from which...