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The Reconciliation of Sino-Japanese Father-Son Complex in “Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles” from the Mirror Theory

  • Journal of Chinese Language and Literature
  • 2024, (96), pp.87-102
  • DOI : 10.15792/clsyn..96.202408.87
  • Publisher : Chinese Literary Society Of Yeong Nam
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : July 20, 2024
  • Accepted : August 13, 2024
  • Published : August 30, 2024

LIU YAXIANG 1

1고려대학교 중일어문학과

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ABSTRACT

The movie “Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles” was shot in 2005. It is a film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Japanese film star Ken Takakura. ‘Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles’ itself is the story of Guan Yu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The content of the story is Guan Yu's insistence on the word ‘faithful’ and ‘righteousness’ under the five pass cut six generals, walking between different countries, finally walking to Liu Bei's side of a legendary story. At the same time, “Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles” is a program name of the Nuo opera of China's intangible cultural heritage. The film story revolves around the Japanese shooting of the Nuo opera of The Thousand Miles Ride. Because of the nature of the film's story development, the film involves cross-cultural communication. Cross-cultural research emphasizes the transformation and regeneration of the subject's contact with others, and challenges the mode of thinking by breaking the myth of binary division. Cross-cultural subjects are fluid, and self and other are paradoxical symbiotic relationships, and cross-cultural identity in the era of globalization is the manifestation of this relationship. Cross-cultural studies is an ethical attitude towards the other, which is manifested in criticizing rigid subjects, advocating the mixed nature of culture, criticizing “orthodox identity” and “centrism”, studying the relationship and comparison between strong and weak cultures, and dialogue with globalization theory on the ethical issues of “cross-cultural connection” and facing “other”. At the same time, Lacan's mirror theory mainly explores the emergence and transformation of people's ‘self’ under the influence of others, so films can be studied from Lacan's mirror theory. In general, this paper will analyze Takadaoka's self-seeking process, that is, the process of finding the relationship between father and son, through mirror theory. In the author's opinion, the storyline in “Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles” involves two cultural forms of China and Japan, which is a spiritual experience that transcends national boundaries and is also a cross-cultural transmission. Since the process of Takadaoka's search for self is relatively special and transnational in nature, in the process of Takadaoka's search for self, we also try to analyze the problem of spiritual resolution of the Chinese and Japanese peoples.

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