Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate the images of families, states, women in the scenarios written in the later period of Japanese rule. Since 'the new colonial policy(新體制)' in 1940, the Chosun's movies fell into propaganda films because of the ideologies such as an assimilation of Japan and Korea, marriage between Koreans and Japanese, and the conduct of the holy war. The characters and narrative in the scenarios were distorted and overstated by the ideologies of Japanese fascism. In the scenarios, family were described as a metaphor of the state, and women were expressed as a 'delivery-machine' that must give birth to a soldier for the Emperor of Japan. Women became a fetish which is dealt with as a commodity having an exchange value in terms of the ideologies of imperialism and capitalism. The reason why women were described as 'delivery machines' resulted from mixing an ideology of patriarchal system with Fascism. In the scenarios, women were not offered any right except for a duty of madam in the rear guard. On the other hand, the characters of women in the scenarios were depicted as soldiers or cyborgs stronger and braver than men. It seems in the scenarios that the differences between gender were overcome superficially. However, gender was regarded not as a various and complex object but as 'a similar-soldier' in order to mobilize people of colony into war. As a result, women in a colony were given an identity of an industrial worker, laborer, soldier. However, it is difficult to say that the ideologies in scenario were accepted intactly to people of the colony at that time. In the scenarios, people of Chosun were treated as comrades of Japanese and women described as strong soldiers, which means that people of Chosun did not sympathize with a policy of Japanese imperialism.