Kto jest potworem? Znaki przemocy w Tokijskiej opowieści Yasujirō Ozu i Monster Hirokazu Koreedy
Who is the Monster? Signs of Violence in Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story and Hirokazu Koreeda’s Monster

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses various forms of violence in Japanese culture and cinema, juxtaposing the subtle violence depicted in Yasujirō Ozu’s films, such as Tokyo Story from the 1950s, with the more explicit representations of violence in contemporary cinema, exemplified by Hirokazu Koreeda’s Monster (2023) and Shoplifters (2018). In Ozu’s works, violence is expressed through silence and the pressure stemming from Confucian norms, illustrating the tension between traditional values and Japan’s postwar modernization. Koreeda’s films, on the other hand, focus on overt violence, institutional crises, and social exclusion, showing how the collapse of symbolic structures leads to alienation and chaos. The author also explores the topic of post-traumatic imagination, analysing how contemporary Japanese filmmakers use the language of cinema to process both collective and individual trauma.

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