Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai and Its Remakes

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description Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai (I Want to Be a Shellfish), the story of a soldier unfairly tried for war crimes, is one of Japan’s longest running media fran chises. First produced as a television drama by the private station KRT (later called TBS)¹ in 1958, it borrows motifs from the 1953 essay Kuruerū Senpanshikeishū (A Mad War Criminal on a Death Row) by Katō Tetsutarō (2007), himself a pardoned BC (lesser crimes) class war criminal,² and was turned into a film in 1959. After the original drama, TBS remade it in 1994; and later Nihon TV also jumped on...
author_additional Guarné, Blai
author_additionalStr Guarné, Blai
format Book Chapters
author Kirsch, Griseldis
author_facet Kirsch, Griseldis
authorStr Kirsch, Griseldis
author_letter Kirsch, Griseldis
title Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai and Its Remakes
publisher Berghahn
publishDate 2019
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30628/

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