Cinema, History and young people in Modern Japan

Abstract

In recent decades, cinema has been revalued as one of the most interesting and punctual reflectors of contemporary society, as it portrays practices that are part of a given time and context. Societies like the Japanese see on the big screen a platform to capture and verify the social and cultural changes that this country has gone through in recent decades. Reviewing the social and historical importance that cinema has had for Japanese society, helps to decipher what kind of films the social reality that the Japanese live through, taking into account the vertiginous transformation that occurred after World War II.