Results of Nostalgia of the Ruins in Kokuriko-zaka Kara and in the world

Abstract

This work analyzes the film “From Up on Poppy Hill” through the lens of Andreas Huyssen's theory about the Nostalgia For Ruins and, thus, compares the fight of this feature-animated film with real and current mobilizations for the sake of Brazilian patrimonies. The film is examined considering the lived context in Japan, which had been preparing itself to host the Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics. Taking into account the gentrified real estate speculation brought to the host cities of megaevents, it is possible to compare it to Rio de Janeiro, where the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics took place. Hence, the Quartier Latin movement and the Movimento Cine Guaraci Vive (Cine Guaraci Lives Movement) come into focus, both by similarities and the discrepancies – that go far beyond reality/fiction, Japan/Brazil etc. In this way, there is a multi-situated and comparative methodological perspective in which film analysis and cinematographic language are added to philosophical theories and participant observation from anthropology.