1950-60s is the ten years where Japanese‘s domination and regime were astatic while the economy were recovered from the war under the United States’ support. the motivation and consumption behavior of new generation shaped by the change of time and westernization. Crazed fruit by Ko Nakahira showed in 1956 where the moment of “no longer the postwar”.
through this paper, you should be concerned with how Japan is understand through the film Crazed Fruit and how the cool, broadly defined?whatever in terms of gatekeepers, temporality, aesthetics, etc etc), shapes this version of Japan.
