Morality in Jin-Roh’s Intertext
Originally published January 2016
Commentary
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is one of my favorite films of all time; this video is one of my most hated. While I don’t necessarily disagree with the fundamental position (that misery is predicated a sort of pivot determined by context), there is A LOT I would want to redo. I would want to re-record, not focus so much on visual description, let the scenes speak for themselves, and ultimately be a bit more clear with regards to what I mean.
This is even more offputting considering this is my most popular video, by far. I don’t really know how or why it happened, when the video first came out it did horribly. I looked at the analytics, the tags, nothing. For a while I thought it was because I had the only Jin-Roh video, but that’s not even the case now, and it’s as strong a performer as ever. What’s going?
This is an incredibly rough video that I somewhat regret, the speaking is too fast, I didn’t go into Nobusuke Kishi enough, and it’s got that old-video aside that makes it a little annoying to listen to.
Stray Notes
Anybody ever played Killzone?
For a bit more of an interesting read, Kenro Densetsu is a fantastic piece of original source material to check out
I strongly recommend David Kaplan and Alec Dubro's "Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld" (it's linked in the text section); it's a great read
Texts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi#cite_note-27
http://everything.explained.today/Jin-Roh%3a_The_Wolf_Brigade/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejiro_Asanuma
Samuels, Richard. Kishi and Corruption: An Anatomy of the 1955 System, http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp83.html
Kaplan, David and Alec Dubro. Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld. 2012.
Johnson, Chalmers. The 1955 System and the American Connection: A Bibliographic Introduction, http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp11.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi - Sarkar, Anoop. "Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade" by Mamoru Oshii, http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~anoop/weblog/archives/000019.html
Multilingual Folk Database, http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu&act=select&atu=333
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson_classification_systems
Greenhill, Pauline and Steven Kohm. Hoodwinked and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Marvels and Tales 27 (2012).
Johnston, Eric. Public Protect in Japan, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2014/12/20/general/public-protest-japan-power-people/#.VoiYSBUrKiM
Video
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x66vpe_inejiro-asanuma-assassination-foota_news
Audio
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