Abstract

ABSTRACTIn this article I will analyse Hani Susumu's film Hatsukoi Jigokuhen/Nanami, Inferno of First Love (Hani, 1968) as a case study for the preoccupation with issues of repression, power and sexual desire present in the Japanese New Wave Cinema. I argue that the film grapples with the duality between objectification and ethical relationships showing the appropriation of the adolescent body by power, and love as resistance against it. This duality is explored visually through a self-reflexive critique of the male gaze.

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