The Influence of Food Culture in Chinese and Japanese Movies

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210519.005How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Food culture, Family film, Hirokazu Koreeda, Family relationship

Abstract

As the old saying goes “Hunger breeds discontentment”, appetite and sexual desire are indispensable and can be controlled rationally, which will last a whole lifetime. In this article, in the contrast between China and Japan’s family films, through food, table, time and city as a symbolic memory unit to analyze the family concepts and ethic theory in two countries, the implicit and reserved in family relationship and the inheritance and continuation of dissociating family culture. Furthermore, to a certain degree, food culture has made influence on the current society. In conclusion, it is argued that the food culture scenes which in certain type of family movies could be ignored, as well as the neglected elements like family relationship, thus bringing local food culture concept into the family film era, which is, an era that needs to reevaluation the influence of food culture in family films.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zekai Chen
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - The Influence of Food Culture in Chinese and Japanese Movies
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 19
EP  - 22
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.005
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.005
ID  - Chen2021
ER  -