Abstract
In Japan, New Zealand pictures have come to be shown recently. 'Piano Lesson', 'Once were warriors', 'Whale rider' are among them. In spite of the differences such as historical background, urban and rural life, the relation between wife and husband or grandfather and granddaughter, there seems to exist a motif common to these movies. The basic motif of the movies is considered to be 'a confliction between male and female' based on sex. So I tried to examine the movies from the view point of gender. As a result, I could prove the following structure of the movies; 'male chauvinism' is a base from which 'woman resistance or flight' arises and finally woman survives.
