East Asian Film Remakes

David Scott Diffrient is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Colorado State University Kenneth Chan is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Northern Colorado

East Asian Film Remakes offers a rich banquet of revelations, ranging from directors who remake their own films as they refine their auteur obsessions to vibrant, humorous and even scandalous pop culture appropriations that display breath-taking creativity.

• INTRODUCTION East Asian Film Remakes – David Scott DiffrientPART I: Re-fleshing the Text: Sex, Seduction, DesireCHAPTER 1. How to Sell a Remake: The Gate of Flesh Media Franchise – Irene González-LópezCHAPTER 2. Against Anaesthesia: An Empty Dream, Pleasurable Pain, and the ‘Illicit’ Thrills of South Korea’s Golden Age Remakes – David Scott DiffrientCHAPTER 3. Two Faces of Seduction: Tragic Heroines and Heroic Victims in Chor Yuen’s Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan and Lust for Love of a Chinese Courtesan – Andrew GrossmanCHAPTER 4. Japanese Self-Made Film Remakes as Self-Improvement: Professional Desires and DIY Fulfilment, from Panic High School to Tetsuo – Mark PlayerPART II: Serialising Ozu: The Enduring Legacy of a Cinematic ‘Tofu Maker’CHAPTER 5. Definition and Progression: Ozu Yasujirō’s ‘Noriko Trilogy’ – Alastair PhillipsCHAPTER 6. A Remake, But…: Media Infantility in Ozu Yasujirō’s Good Morning – Rea AmitCHAPTER 7. The Cinema of Serial Vitality: Ozu Yasujirō and Yamada Yoji – Steve ChoePART III: Revisiting Personal/Political Traumas in East Asian Action Films, Gangster Films and WesternsCHAPTER 8. Opting Out of History: Miike Takashi’s New Graveyard of Honor – Earl JacksonCHAPTER 9. The Promise of Hokkaidō: Trauma, Violence, and the Legacy of the Imperial Frontier in Lee Sang-il’s Unforgiven – Lance LomaxCHAPTER 10. Benny Chan’s Connected and the Post-Handover Hong Kong Action Film – Gary BettinsonCHAPTER 11. Vessels and Cargos: Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion in Johnnie To’s Drug War and Lee Hae-young’s Korean Remake Believer – Jinhee ChoiPART IV: Local Flavours and Transcultural Flows in East Asian Comedies, Dramas and FantasiesCHAPTER 12. The Power of Healing in Little Forest(s): Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Friendship, and Self-Identity, from Japan to South Korea – Nam LeeCHAPTER 13. More than Blue and Man in Love: Transnational Korean-Taiwanese Film Remakes as a Facilitator for Taiwan Cinema – Ting-Ying LinCHAPTER 14. The Pan-Asian Miss Granny Phenomenon – Jennifer Coates, Hsin Hsieh, Sung-Ae Lee, and Kate E. Taylor-JonesCHAPTER 15. Remaking in the Age of Chthulumedia: Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid – Kenneth Chan