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After the war, the appearance of leftish Japanese (Jai-nichi) movie directors and their active working with expiating on suppression of Korean lead making a lot of movies which showed remorse of dominating Korea and represented negative view to the rounding-up of discrimination. But Japanese tend to evaluate those movies as reconstructing of minority in Japanese society. We should understand those movies with different point of view. The appearance of Jai-nich was built on close relationship with social and historical circumstances at that time so it’s certain to come at it from another angle. In this study, the Korean-Japanese film <Blood and Bones> is analyzed in different angle with Japanese view. This movie showed a history of first generation of Jai-nichi through a life of one man (Jun-Pyeong Kim). The Jai-nichi narratives in movies were regarded as a mirror of a Japanese society in transition towards becoming a multiracial country; a fact which post-war Japanese society strove to ignore and eliminate. The presence of a Jai-nichi identity in film, which emerged from the Japanese occupation of Korea represented a unique viewpoint. This study took a skeptical look at this interpretation, and analyzed the protagonist, Jun-Pyeong Kim’s brutality in historical and social perspective. The movie was separated to seven major sequences and analyzed to understand a structure and development of narrative. Greimas’ semiotic square model was used to grasp a diverse meaning of the narrative structure. The character’s acts were analyzed in social and political context and a relationship between Jun-Pyeon Kim and 3 other women became known as an important clue of analyzing Kim’s drastic brutality. So the study tried to find the origin of brutality applying that relationship into Greima’s actor model and Semiotic Square. This study concludes that the brutality of the protagonist, Jun-Pyeong Kim in the film『Blood and Bones』came from Japan's colonial rule of Korea. In other words, Kim’s several violent behaviors were symbolic of Jai-nichi who lived in the period of unstable and sudden changed imperialism of Japan and it was disclosed through this movie.

Japanese Film, Blood and Bones, Jainichi, Choi yang-il, Yang seok-il. Korean Japanese