http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/lc/jidai/080717_yan1/index.html
「私が書きたいのは、虚構の中の真実である。闇の中の実態を小説という虚構の世界で描くことであった。なぜなら、真実は誰も見たことがないからである」

「ルポをはじめとするさまざまな資料はあっても、あるところから先は事実関係がわからなかったりする。この問題もそうですよ。そういう世界に踏み込んで、一定の事実を追求しながら書いていく。『虚構の真実』というのは小説の持つ一つの力だと思うんです」

「ある女性読者から、『読書グループでこの本を読んで、とてもショックを受けた、これがどこまで事実なのか私たちのところに来て話をしてほしい』と電話をもらった。でも、断ったんです。それは自分たちで考えてください、と。ショックを受けたなら、そこから読者自身が真実を探していくということでいいんですよ」

There was a discussion over at Jasongray’s blog and someone was asking how factual is the source novel and I was a bit skeptic.Yang used to write based on his actual life experience and they were worth reading.But he has tendency of overdramatize things,me think.

Sakamoto(or more accurately the script writer,Arai Haruhiko) was severly criticized in the past by critic Yomota Inuhiko on factual accracy on his docudrama of Kim Dae Jung abduction flick “KT”.

“作品は、ノンフィクションを強調しているわけではありません。国を告発するというのではなく、大人の醜さを描きたかったということです”

Unfortunately, this is not the case- while street organ transplants may not be real, child prostitution and rape certainly is, and there are undeniably large numbers of foreigners (as the film shows, Japanese AND Western-none of the Japanese internet critics I’ve seen mention this) guilty of purchasing those services. What the attackers aren’t getting, though, is that the organ transplant subplot is a metaphor for the commoditization of these children’s lives, taking the concept to an ultimate conclusion. I could almost guarantee that this was the intention of the writer and director, but perhaps he has done a poor job of explaining this in interviews.

i dont think that this movie blame only one contrie – it blame all countries where the ppl taken part of this horrible daily life of children. a story needs a point where to start and the maker choosed the characters in this way – nobody seems to have a better point in there who get in this scenes the white cloth in something dirty.

i hope this movie will shown for many ppl to shown what happend behind there notice, behind closed eyes, behind cruel acceptings of this. it should ppl make awake. make feel mad. make feel nauseate over it – make them move in this view!

its brave of Junji to make a movie over this topic.. and to dont take it to soft… it must creating high waves in each viewers feelings. probably it only can change the daily world of this children if much more ppl learning that its not right what is going on.

i hope my english is good enough for getting understand and and right understand what i wanting to say.

many greetings.

ps: only cause its playing in a country and showing a true face behind walls – you should stop thinking its anti-xcountry. no contrie has a white cloth. no one. mostly not. if its history or present..there will be always dirt to find!

I think, however, that for people who want to knock Korea, a few major themes come up time and again – – Domestic violence – depicted as being part of `Korean culture` – Uncritical ideas toward North Korea causing many to ruin their lives by returning there from Japan. Japanese right dwells on this. – Koreans as thugs and criminals – a bad influence on Japanese society.

All of these tropes come up in “Blood and Bone”. Since it was from a Zainichi author it can be read as strikingly honest self-reflection. If it were written by a Japanese Japanese, however, I think that some would have said that it only showed the “bad side” of Zainichi society.

I like this kind of popular culture, but I agree with a comment that Aceface made elsewhere. I think that the author repeats this stuff until it loses some of its force.