The Daigo Fukuryu Maru film might remind us with the film GOJIRA which was made in 1954, the year when the Bikini Atoll incident happened. GOJIRA, if you don`t know, is told as a creature that has been transformed into a huge destructive monster as the effect of bomb radiation. In fact, GOJIRA`s director, Ishiro Honda, made this film because he was inspired by the incident happened to the Daigo Fukuryu Maru fishing boat.
As for the storyline, actually the two films have different plot. But two films had same inspiration source, which is the effect of bomb testing. Or in other words, both films` message is the same, which is to show the feeling of anti-nuclear.
But the one of the obvious differences is that Daigo Fukuryu Maru is rather a non-fiction film, while GOJIRA is a fiction film.
What does fiction or non-fiction mean?
To be simple, non-fiction means true or real, and fiction means not true or might be imagination. Usually, these terms is more often used by written pieces, such as novels, stories, articles, news, etc. Examples of fictional pieces are poems, plays, animations, animal stories, etc. While non-fictional pieces are newspaper stories, editorials, personal accounts, journal articles, legal documents, etc. Non-fiction based on true stories or real world.Gojira, as I stated above, is a fictional story. This film link the true story about atomic bomb, but then created imaginative elements, which is not exist in the real world, such as the monster. Daigo Fukuryu Maru is rather a non-fictional film because it is based on true story. It is true that it is not exactly non-fiction because it still put elements of creative license, such as the love story between Harada and Kiyo-chan, but the plot of the story is more telling about historical experience that happened in the real life.
2 comments:
It is a really nice post.
Having a comparison between Gojira and Daigo Fukuryu maru, which are basically inspired by bomb testing. While one is fiction and anohter is non-fiction.
It is remind me as well about the film Godzilla (US version of Gojira), that here the bomb has a duality role, creator and destroyer of the monster itself.
If we look again from US Film, there is always good side of nuclear power or nuclear bomb.
I guess because the Japanese version`s purpose is to show anti-nuclear movement. On the other hand, the American version tend to let the people forget about the nuclear and thus they made the film as for entertainment.
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