抄録
The Wild Geese written by Mori Ogai depicts feudal Japanese society in the Meiji era. The novel was made into a film in 1953, written by Narusawa Masashige, directed by Toyoda Shiro, and starring Takamine Hideko. Ikehiro Kazuo directed a remake based on the same Narusawa script that slightly deviates from the original novel, starring Wakao Ayako in 1966. The two films, while based on the same Narusawa script, stand as completely different works because of the difference of their cinematic techniques such as Mise-en-scène and the actors’ and actresses’ performances. Analyzing how these films were adapted and remade by investigating the production process, this essay shows how women in Toyoda’s version of The Wild Geese are represented differently from the ones in the original novel, echoing the discourse of postwar democracy.
