Precarity's Pirate: The Fictive Afterlives of Idemitsu Saz?
Precarity's Pirate: The Fictive Afterlives of Idemitsu Saz?
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不稳定的海盗:出光沙兹的虚构来世?
DOI:
10.1017/s0021911822000547
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2022
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Leheny David
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Leheny;David and Hellyer;Robert;Naofumi Fujimura and Sohei Shigemura;秋山道宏;Sven T. Siefken and Hilmar Rommetvedt;鹿 錫俊;山谷清秀;犬塚元;平良好利;手嶋昭子;小川公代・吉野由利・河野哲也・森田直子・大河内昌・犬塚元・井上櫻子・川津雅江・土井良子・原田範行・大石和欣;Jochen Rehmert and Naofumi Fujimura;Leheny David
When the famously nationalistic Japanese author Hyakuta Naoki published his best-selling novelA Man Called Pirate(Kaizoku to yobareta otoko) in 2012, which subsequently became both a manga and a major film, he renewed interest in the midcentury oil baron Idemitsu Sazō, using him as the model for the novel's lead character. Hyakuta claims to have aimed to inspire the country, reeling from decades of slow growth as well as the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, by featuring a visionary Japanese leader motivated primarily by love for his employees and his country. This article traces the efforts across these media to render Idemitsu as a credible character, particularly in dealing with his real-life family as well as his “family” of employees. It argues that the partial disappearance of the “real” Idemitsu in these versions of Hyakuta's novel allowed the production of a more believable one—made believable in part because of the essential Japanese values that he ostensibly represents, even as the constraints on these representations hint at fissures and tensions in contemporary political use of biographical fiction and film.