감정의 규율과 재일코리안 차별의 일상적 구조 ー영화 『한 남자』를 중심으로 = The Regulation of Emotions and the Everyday Structuring of Discrimination against Zainichi Koreans ー Focusing on the Film A Man

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines how Ishikawa Kei ’s film A Man represents Zainichi Koreans from the perspective of emotional politics. Whereas previous research has tended to focus on Zainichi issues in terms of legal and institutional discrimination or conflicts of ethnic identity, this study highlights how discrimination is normalized not through explicit hatred but through social norms that demand particular emotional performances—such as smiling, silence, and politeness. Through analysis of mise-en-scène, gaze, and sound rhythm in scenes where Kido, a Zainichi Korean protagonist, suppresses and regulates his emotions across legal, domestic, and social settings, the study reveals that the postwar myth of “equality without discrimination” in Japanese society has been sustained by emotional control. Furthermore, the rupture of this emotional structure becomes a turning point in which Kido learns to bear the emotions of others and to reconstruct relationships, prompting a rethinking of identity not as a matter of exposure or concealment but as continuity of emotion and sustainability of relational ties. In this regard, the film A Man can be evaluated as a critical text that moves beyond the representation of Zainichi Koreans and explores the possibility of a new politics of identity through relational practices of bearing and inheriting emotions.