Crossing thresholds: women directors making a home in Japanese cinema
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Within many of the works of contemporary Japanese women commercial filmmakers, we see a new vision of home, home spaces, and the act of home making. These depictions diverge from cinematic spaces of and metaphors about the home found in the works of previous directors. While ‘home’ on screen has been shaped throughout Japanese cinema history by dominant gendered narratives that imagine family and the physical house itself as an ideological extension of the state, contemporary Japanese women directors reimagine home as not a physical structure or ‘traditional’ family, but as a matter of repetitive habit expressed through visual and narrative motifs. This creates a sense of ‘at-homeness’ in their films that resonates with how a contemporaneous generation of young people in Japan have also found new definitions of and feelings about home. This article traces both the depiction of home in Japanese cinema and the dominant definitions of ‘home’ in Japanese public discourse from the early 1920s to the early 2000s, before offering a close analysis of two case studies – directors Tanada Yuki and Ogigami Naoko – to show how members of this new generation find an expression of home through the formal craft of cinema itself.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".