ISLE OF DOGS: JAPAN ACCORDING TO WES ANDERSON

The following paper by Mario Ceballos analyses the Japanese culture taking from the stop motion animated film Isle of Dogs (2018) by the American director Wes Anderson, and how the characteristic elements of his evolution as a filmmaker appear in it. The essay highlights the importance of the author's research work in order to accurately capture all the political and social iconographic elements of this country, by emphasizing the implication of Confucianism in the development of the Japanese identity throughout its history, and how it could be expressed in the future of a possible dystopian future.