David Z. Morris

Postdoctoral Research FellowUniversity of South Florida

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Sonoda Kenji's The Sakura of Madness

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David Z. Morris University of South Florida

September 06, 2012
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Sonoda Kenji's The Sakura of Madness nationalism Japan Hip Hop Cinema Week Fascism Curator's Note Kyouki no Sakura (2002) is a hugely compelling film from Japan, directed by Sonoda Kenji from a novel by Hikita Kunio. The focus of the film is a t ...

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Re: Sonoda Kenji's The Sakura of Madness

Japanese Hip Hop Cinema

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David Z. Morris University of South Florida

Friday, September 7, 2012 — 12:41 am
Aaron, I'm aware of a few other Japanese hip hop films, and though none of them deal with quite the same politics as this one, I think they all follow in the tradition of global hip hop cinema as concerned with the margins of society (which is true o ...
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Re: Sonoda Kenji's The Sakura of Madness

Kuzoku

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David Z. Morris University of South Florida

Friday, September 7, 2012 — 1:45 am
How could I forget! The other great Japanese hip hop films are Kokudou Nijuugou Sen [Off Highway 20] and Saudade, both made by the badass grassroots collective Kusoku, or "Sky Tribe." Sadly, neither of these films are commercially available in J ...
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Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

Hi Aaron!

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David Z. Morris University of South Florida

Tuesday, September 4, 2012 — 6:10 pm
There's an important point that a couple of commentators have touched on briefly- blackness as exoticization. On one level, the reality of the issue of authenticity is, as your piece suggests, that the APPEARANCE of authenticity is crucial to marketi ...