There are a number of cases where Japan is the stage of the movie, and the filming location is in a place other than Japan. Professor Toshiyuki Masubuchi of Hosei University Graduate School said, “Japan has many restrictions on filming locations, and Hollywood movies and other films have flowed to South Korea and Taiwan. Japan is missing out on great opportunities.”
*This article was written by Toshiyuki MasubuchiWhy Korean content is taking the world by storm](Tokuma Shoten).
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The image of the city is created by the media
Media plays a big role in forming and disseminating a city image. In fact, there are cities that are image-driven. It is a different story once you have lived in such a city, but it is characterized by the easy-to-understand image created by the media. It is often full of charm as a tourist city.
When you hear the name of the city, it would be nice to say that it is simply a city that comes to mind. In Sapporo, the TV Tower, Odori Park, and Clock Tower come to mind; in Kyoto, shrines and temples such as Kiyomizu Temple and Kinkakuji Temple; So are the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the skyscrapers in New York, the London Bridge in London, the Tokyo Tower in Tokyo, and the Tokyo Sky Tree.
5 elements that make up the image of the city
Regarding the image of the city, it is a classical study, but the study of Kevin Lynch will be positioned as the starting point. He analyzed the environmental image of the city into three components: “identity: being what it is”, “structure” and “meaning”.Image of the city (new edition)”Kenzo Tange/Reiko Tomita, Iwanami Shoten, 2007). In “Image of the City” in particular, I narrowed it down to two: identity and structure. And focus on 5 elements.
The five elements are explained as follows.
(1) A path refers to a road or a path that people pass through, specifically a street, a promenade, a transportation route, a canal, a railroad, etc.
(2) An edge is a rim, that is, something that interrupts a continuous state. Refers to the boundary of an area, specifically railroad tracks, coasts, cliffs, etc., that do not form a path.
(3) A district refers to a region or a relatively large urban area (part), within which each part has similar characteristics.
④ A node is a junction point, a concentration point, and an important focal point, such as an intersection, a square, a roundabout, or a station.
(5) Landmarks are landmarks and signposts that can be seen from the outside. A landmark that exists relatively far away, such as a building, a sign, a monument, or a mountain.
The above example would apply to the ⑤ landmark.