Ozu is One of greatest Japanese directors as well as a screen writer.
Here i introduce his
1. Biography,
2. Education received,
3. Influences from and toward others in the film industry,
4. Accomplishments, and
5. Reputation
Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director known for his innovative techniques and mastery of various film genres. Some of his most famous works include Rashomon and Seven Samurai. He was the first director to film the sun directly and defied conventions about what could be captured on camera. Kurosawa believed film was a medium that combined elements of other art forms. He was named 'Asian of the Century' for his influential contributions to cinema.
This document summarizes and reviews the 1953 Japanese film Tokyo Story directed by Yasujiro Ozu. It provides details on the film's plot, Ozu's directing style which emphasized patient shots and minimal editing, and critical reception. The film is widely considered one of the greatest of all time and tells a simple but universal story about aging parents visiting their busy children in post-war Tokyo that remains deeply relevant. Top critics praise Ozu's style and how the film quietly builds to an epic portrayal of family and social change.
Chairman Mao is excited to visit Russia and meet with Stalin, as it will be his first international visit. The document shows a mock Facebook page for Mao where he shares this message. The page includes biographical information about Mao, messages from supporters on his wall, and photos from his life and political career.
Wojtek Mrozowski is studying Multimedia journalism at South Downs College. He enjoys playing games, going out with friends, studying history, and visiting museums. He attended primary school in Poland and later City of Portsmouth Boys School. After college, his ideal job would be as a war correspondent for Vice News, though he would also be happy working in media. For his front cover, he combined styles from historical magazines, using a WWII-era photo of himself in a German Air Force uniform taken by his professional photographer brother. The double page spread drew on design elements from other magazines and featured researched information from the Polish Aviation Museum.
George Lucas drew inspiration from many existing stories and genres when creating Star Wars, mixing elements from Japanese drama, Kurosawa films, Flash Gordon, and John Carter comics. However, Star Wars became an original and successful story by taking familiar genres and reversing one aspect of them. Specifically, Lucas combined elements like heroes' journeys, space operas, and samurai films in a new way that had never been done before.
This document discusses the history and evolution of Chinese cinema from 1949 to the present. It covers major periods and movements, including films during the Cultural Revolution, the rise of 5th generation filmmakers in the 1980s, and differences between 1950s films and more recent Chinese films. The document also analyzes genres from different eras and the politics of filmmaking in China over time.
The document discusses different modes of documentaries including participatory, expository, and observational. Participatory documentaries feature the filmmaker asking questions and sharing their views. Expository documentaries aim to advance an argument through narration and archival footage. Observational documentaries objectively observe and record events without narration to allow the audience to draw their own conclusions. Examples provided include Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" for participatory and the 1970's film "Gimme Shelter" for observational.
Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director known for his innovative techniques and mastery of various film genres. Some of his most famous works include Rashomon and Seven Samurai. He was the first director to film the sun directly and defied conventions about what could be captured on camera. Kurosawa believed film was a medium that combined elements of other art forms. He was named 'Asian of the Century' for his influential contributions to cinema.
This document summarizes and reviews the 1953 Japanese film Tokyo Story directed by Yasujiro Ozu. It provides details on the film's plot, Ozu's directing style which emphasized patient shots and minimal editing, and critical reception. The film is widely considered one of the greatest of all time and tells a simple but universal story about aging parents visiting their busy children in post-war Tokyo that remains deeply relevant. Top critics praise Ozu's style and how the film quietly builds to an epic portrayal of family and social change.
Chairman Mao is excited to visit Russia and meet with Stalin, as it will be his first international visit. The document shows a mock Facebook page for Mao where he shares this message. The page includes biographical information about Mao, messages from supporters on his wall, and photos from his life and political career.
Wojtek Mrozowski is studying Multimedia journalism at South Downs College. He enjoys playing games, going out with friends, studying history, and visiting museums. He attended primary school in Poland and later City of Portsmouth Boys School. After college, his ideal job would be as a war correspondent for Vice News, though he would also be happy working in media. For his front cover, he combined styles from historical magazines, using a WWII-era photo of himself in a German Air Force uniform taken by his professional photographer brother. The double page spread drew on design elements from other magazines and featured researched information from the Polish Aviation Museum.
George Lucas drew inspiration from many existing stories and genres when creating Star Wars, mixing elements from Japanese drama, Kurosawa films, Flash Gordon, and John Carter comics. However, Star Wars became an original and successful story by taking familiar genres and reversing one aspect of them. Specifically, Lucas combined elements like heroes' journeys, space operas, and samurai films in a new way that had never been done before.
This document discusses the history and evolution of Chinese cinema from 1949 to the present. It covers major periods and movements, including films during the Cultural Revolution, the rise of 5th generation filmmakers in the 1980s, and differences between 1950s films and more recent Chinese films. The document also analyzes genres from different eras and the politics of filmmaking in China over time.
The document discusses different modes of documentaries including participatory, expository, and observational. Participatory documentaries feature the filmmaker asking questions and sharing their views. Expository documentaries aim to advance an argument through narration and archival footage. Observational documentaries objectively observe and record events without narration to allow the audience to draw their own conclusions. Examples provided include Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" for participatory and the 1970's film "Gimme Shelter" for observational.
Street photography involves capturing everyday life and people in public places using candid photos. Some major artists in this genre include French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, known for capturing "the decisive moment," Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, and Americans Robert Frank and William Eggleston, who helped establish street photography as an art form in the mid-20th century.
This trailer analysis document summarizes a film trailer for an adaptation of Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. [1] The trailer uses 153 shots that increase in pace and tension to grasp audience attention. [2] It introduces the main characters of Anna and Count Vronsky and their forbidden love affair that leads to Anna's downfall. [3] Scenes depict their growing romance along with the social consequences of Anna breaking 19th century rules of marriage which threaten to ruin her life.
In this letter from 1914, Sigmund Freud describes how he is living isolated in his "private trench" where he speculates and writes about psychoanalysis. He reports that anxiety, hysteria, and paranoia have "capitulated" or been explained through his work. However, he has doubts about fully explaining the problems of pleasure and unpleasure. While isolated from most colleagues due to the war, Freud feels he has already contributed more to the world than what the world has given him in return. He concludes by saying he is currently writing primarily for Ferenczi and a few others.
Andrew Frayn - Attachment and coping in D.H. Lawrence's 'Bay'Realsmartmedia
'Attachments and coping towards the end of the First World War: D. H. Lawrence's Bay (1919)'; A public talk by Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University). 29 April, The Seminar Room (H204) in UCD Humanities Institute.
D. H. Lawrence described his poetry collection Bay, published in a limited edition in 1919 by Cyril Beaumont having been in press for over a year, as 'more or less about the war'. It is a document of the dying days of the conflict, largely conceived and written in early 1918 as Lawrence struggled to live by the pen following the suppression of 'The Rainbow' (1915) and his ejection from Cornwall in 1917. In this talk, Andrew Frayn examines the attachments that sustained Lawrence as his parlous personal situation coincided with the fraught final year of the war.
This event is part of the Wartime Attachments series of lectures and podcasts: http://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/podcasts/2015/wartime-attachments/
Funded by the Irish Research Council, and organised by IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Barry Sheils
The piece summarizes the key elements that should be included in discussing Shakespeare's and World War I poets' views on war. It mentions analyzing how Shakespeare and poets like Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Jessie Pope portray war and their reasons for doing so. The summary also includes providing context on the authors and discussing some of their major poems, with a focus on exploring the central ideas and arguments about war found in the works of Shakespeare and these poets.
This document discusses the Chinese 5th Generation Film Makers from the 1980s to present day. It covers the influence of 5th Generation Cinema in China, the impact of Chinese and Hollywood cinema on each other, and how today's Chinese 5th Generation Cinema has been shaped by both traditions. Key filmmakers from this movement include Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang, and Huang Jianxin, who helped establish a postsocialist Chinese cinema with their films in the 1980s that explored themes of love, freedom, desire, justice, and the American dream.
The piece summarizes an introduction checklist for comparing how Shakespeare and World War 1 poets portray war in their works. It recommends including context on the authors - Shakespeare, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Jessie Pope - and why they had the opinions of war that they did. Key poems should be briefly discussed, exploring the big ideas and arguments about war. Henry V's journey from Henry IV to marrying Princess Catherine should also be discussed, examining how Shakespeare wants readers to feel and what he says about war and Henry's use of it.
The document provides guidelines for creating a PowerPoint presentation on art history. It lists artists from different stylistic periods for selection, such as Renaissance masters Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci. It also lists general guidelines for the presentation, such as using images between 500-1000 pixels, avoiding enlarging small images, using readable fonts from 14-40 point size, including .5 lines between bulleted paragraphs, and not using animations or motion paths. Background colors should be neutral and not clash with images.
This document discusses different genres of films including science fiction, western, war, comedy, romance, action adventure, and thriller. It notes that genre boundaries can be flexible, with examples like Terminator 2 being both science fiction and action adventure, and Back to the Future 3 combining science fiction, western, comedy and romance. The document also lists horror as a genre of film.
This document discusses various concepts related to storytelling and filmmaking, including the differences between story and plot, points of view in narratives, adaptations of literature to film, and types of documentaries. It provides examples of motifs in films like water in The Graduate. It also outlines the three main types of literary adaptations - loose, faithful, and literal. Finally, it notes how modern documentaries differ from early documentary films by imposing narrative structures on real footage rather than simply recording events.
The film Iron Sky takes place in 2018, where Nazis have established a secret base on the dark side of the moon since 1945. In the opening sequence, astronauts discover the Nazi base, but the white astronaut is killed after finding it. The genre is sci-fi/action, as the main character travels to space and a battle between the astronauts and Nazis is implied. The setting is established as the dark side of the moon in 2018 through captions at the beginning of the opening sequence.
Дмитрий Туляков "После модернизма: художник и его время в двух автобиографиях...Lisa Al-Faradzh
This document summarizes two autobiographies written by British modernist artist and writer Wyndham Lewis from 1937 to 1947. It discusses how Lewis positioned himself both as a modernist artist who criticized aspects of modernism, and how his autobiographies reflected the changing relationship between artists and the times in which they lived. The document provides biographical details about Lewis and his diverse body of work. It also analyzes how modernist authors approached and experimented with autobiography as a genre. Key excerpts from Lewis' two autobiographies are presented to show how his perspective shifted from the detached perspective of an artist in the first one to a more engaged discussion of his role in shaping a new civilization in the second.
Thrillers aim to provoke suspense and excitement in audiences through their use of certain conventions. Thrillers typically take place in urban settings and revolve around an enigma or mystery, with themes of violence. They employ techniques like low key lighting, quick cuts between shots, shadows, tension-building music, and changing camera angles to create an atmosphere of tension and thrill. Examples of popular thriller films demonstrate these common conventions of the genre.
Comparison of Strike (Eisenstein 1925) and German ExpressionismRachel Jones
- Students must be able to describe the dominant characteristics of Soviet Montage (SM), including its objective, crowd-focused, and propagandistic style that used documentary, naturalism, drama and slapstick.
- Students should be able to describe how SM differed from German Expressionism (GE) in its presentation of the proletariat as natural and the bourgeoisie as unnatural, and how it employed editing, mise-en-scene, and symbolic motifs to convey political meanings.
- Students could discuss how SM combined mass entertainment with revolutionary politics and influenced later filmmakers and movements through its innovative editing techniques and political cinema.
Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright and theatre practitioner who created Epic Theatre, which aimed to educate audiences and provoke social and political change through critical thinking. Epic Theatre breaks the fourth wall and uses distancing effects like songs, captions, and episodic formats to remind viewers they are watching a representation, not reality itself, in order to shape attitudes and society. Brecht believed theatre's greatest function was to educate rather than provide escapism.
Erich Maria Remarque was a German author best known for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. He served in WWI and was wounded, drawing on his experiences for his novel. All Quiet was a huge success but also drew Nazi ire, leading Remarque to flee Germany. He had affairs with famous actresses and settled in Switzerland, where he wrote numerous other novels exploring the psychological impacts of war before dying in 1970.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle will be performed at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre from December 20, 2010 to January 20, 2011. The play was written by Bertolt Brecht and tells the story of Grusha, a servant who rescues her employer's child, Michael. Both Grusha and the child's biological mother, Natella, claim to be the rightful parent. The case is brought before Judge Azdak, who makes an unconventional decision. Brecht wrote the play in 1943 while exiled from Nazi Germany, incorporating themes of love, politics, and the hardship of war. The production features Rachel Green as Grusha and will be directed by Artistic Director Craig J. Faulk
Story board to pitch ideas for music video by fatehahaverstockmedia
The document outlines a story board for a music video featuring a singer performing in 5 locations: a park, empty street at night, shop, home, and bus stop. It proposes using a variety of shots like mid shot, close up, wide shot, and long shot across the locations to tell a narrative of a character walking and singing about a broken heart after being deceived by a lover. The story board considers locations, characters, shots types, and a heartbreak narrative for the music video.
Street photography involves capturing unposed moments in public spaces. It aims to document spontaneous interactions or convey a personal perspective through images. Effective street photography relies on techniques like using juxtaposition to find humor, capturing the decisive moment, and ensuring each photo tells a story. Common conventions include shooting in public areas and using composition and timing to express an idea or concept.
Japan has a long history in film dating back to the 1890s and remains one of the largest film industries in the world. Some of Japan's most notable silent films were produced in the 1920s and included works by directors like Teinosuke Kinugasa. The 1930s saw more talkies produced including works by legendary director Kenji Mizoguchi. World War II impacted the industry but post-war films saw a resurgence led by Akira Kurosawa's works in the 1940s and 1950s, which marked a golden age of Japanese cinema. Horror films also rose to prominence starting in the late 1990s with the success of works like Ringu and Ju-on: The Grudge, which
It talks about the historical perspective of Japanese Cinema. It highlights the popular genres, stalwarts in film making, golden era of Japanese Cinema... etc.
Street photography involves capturing everyday life and people in public places using candid photos. Some major artists in this genre include French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, known for capturing "the decisive moment," Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, and Americans Robert Frank and William Eggleston, who helped establish street photography as an art form in the mid-20th century.
This trailer analysis document summarizes a film trailer for an adaptation of Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. [1] The trailer uses 153 shots that increase in pace and tension to grasp audience attention. [2] It introduces the main characters of Anna and Count Vronsky and their forbidden love affair that leads to Anna's downfall. [3] Scenes depict their growing romance along with the social consequences of Anna breaking 19th century rules of marriage which threaten to ruin her life.
In this letter from 1914, Sigmund Freud describes how he is living isolated in his "private trench" where he speculates and writes about psychoanalysis. He reports that anxiety, hysteria, and paranoia have "capitulated" or been explained through his work. However, he has doubts about fully explaining the problems of pleasure and unpleasure. While isolated from most colleagues due to the war, Freud feels he has already contributed more to the world than what the world has given him in return. He concludes by saying he is currently writing primarily for Ferenczi and a few others.
Andrew Frayn - Attachment and coping in D.H. Lawrence's 'Bay'Realsmartmedia
'Attachments and coping towards the end of the First World War: D. H. Lawrence's Bay (1919)'; A public talk by Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University). 29 April, The Seminar Room (H204) in UCD Humanities Institute.
D. H. Lawrence described his poetry collection Bay, published in a limited edition in 1919 by Cyril Beaumont having been in press for over a year, as 'more or less about the war'. It is a document of the dying days of the conflict, largely conceived and written in early 1918 as Lawrence struggled to live by the pen following the suppression of 'The Rainbow' (1915) and his ejection from Cornwall in 1917. In this talk, Andrew Frayn examines the attachments that sustained Lawrence as his parlous personal situation coincided with the fraught final year of the war.
This event is part of the Wartime Attachments series of lectures and podcasts: http://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/podcasts/2015/wartime-attachments/
Funded by the Irish Research Council, and organised by IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Barry Sheils
The piece summarizes the key elements that should be included in discussing Shakespeare's and World War I poets' views on war. It mentions analyzing how Shakespeare and poets like Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Jessie Pope portray war and their reasons for doing so. The summary also includes providing context on the authors and discussing some of their major poems, with a focus on exploring the central ideas and arguments about war found in the works of Shakespeare and these poets.
This document discusses the Chinese 5th Generation Film Makers from the 1980s to present day. It covers the influence of 5th Generation Cinema in China, the impact of Chinese and Hollywood cinema on each other, and how today's Chinese 5th Generation Cinema has been shaped by both traditions. Key filmmakers from this movement include Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang, and Huang Jianxin, who helped establish a postsocialist Chinese cinema with their films in the 1980s that explored themes of love, freedom, desire, justice, and the American dream.
The piece summarizes an introduction checklist for comparing how Shakespeare and World War 1 poets portray war in their works. It recommends including context on the authors - Shakespeare, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Jessie Pope - and why they had the opinions of war that they did. Key poems should be briefly discussed, exploring the big ideas and arguments about war. Henry V's journey from Henry IV to marrying Princess Catherine should also be discussed, examining how Shakespeare wants readers to feel and what he says about war and Henry's use of it.
The document provides guidelines for creating a PowerPoint presentation on art history. It lists artists from different stylistic periods for selection, such as Renaissance masters Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci. It also lists general guidelines for the presentation, such as using images between 500-1000 pixels, avoiding enlarging small images, using readable fonts from 14-40 point size, including .5 lines between bulleted paragraphs, and not using animations or motion paths. Background colors should be neutral and not clash with images.
This document discusses different genres of films including science fiction, western, war, comedy, romance, action adventure, and thriller. It notes that genre boundaries can be flexible, with examples like Terminator 2 being both science fiction and action adventure, and Back to the Future 3 combining science fiction, western, comedy and romance. The document also lists horror as a genre of film.
This document discusses various concepts related to storytelling and filmmaking, including the differences between story and plot, points of view in narratives, adaptations of literature to film, and types of documentaries. It provides examples of motifs in films like water in The Graduate. It also outlines the three main types of literary adaptations - loose, faithful, and literal. Finally, it notes how modern documentaries differ from early documentary films by imposing narrative structures on real footage rather than simply recording events.
The film Iron Sky takes place in 2018, where Nazis have established a secret base on the dark side of the moon since 1945. In the opening sequence, astronauts discover the Nazi base, but the white astronaut is killed after finding it. The genre is sci-fi/action, as the main character travels to space and a battle between the astronauts and Nazis is implied. The setting is established as the dark side of the moon in 2018 through captions at the beginning of the opening sequence.
Дмитрий Туляков "После модернизма: художник и его время в двух автобиографиях...Lisa Al-Faradzh
This document summarizes two autobiographies written by British modernist artist and writer Wyndham Lewis from 1937 to 1947. It discusses how Lewis positioned himself both as a modernist artist who criticized aspects of modernism, and how his autobiographies reflected the changing relationship between artists and the times in which they lived. The document provides biographical details about Lewis and his diverse body of work. It also analyzes how modernist authors approached and experimented with autobiography as a genre. Key excerpts from Lewis' two autobiographies are presented to show how his perspective shifted from the detached perspective of an artist in the first one to a more engaged discussion of his role in shaping a new civilization in the second.
Thrillers aim to provoke suspense and excitement in audiences through their use of certain conventions. Thrillers typically take place in urban settings and revolve around an enigma or mystery, with themes of violence. They employ techniques like low key lighting, quick cuts between shots, shadows, tension-building music, and changing camera angles to create an atmosphere of tension and thrill. Examples of popular thriller films demonstrate these common conventions of the genre.
Comparison of Strike (Eisenstein 1925) and German ExpressionismRachel Jones
- Students must be able to describe the dominant characteristics of Soviet Montage (SM), including its objective, crowd-focused, and propagandistic style that used documentary, naturalism, drama and slapstick.
- Students should be able to describe how SM differed from German Expressionism (GE) in its presentation of the proletariat as natural and the bourgeoisie as unnatural, and how it employed editing, mise-en-scene, and symbolic motifs to convey political meanings.
- Students could discuss how SM combined mass entertainment with revolutionary politics and influenced later filmmakers and movements through its innovative editing techniques and political cinema.
Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright and theatre practitioner who created Epic Theatre, which aimed to educate audiences and provoke social and political change through critical thinking. Epic Theatre breaks the fourth wall and uses distancing effects like songs, captions, and episodic formats to remind viewers they are watching a representation, not reality itself, in order to shape attitudes and society. Brecht believed theatre's greatest function was to educate rather than provide escapism.
Erich Maria Remarque was a German author best known for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. He served in WWI and was wounded, drawing on his experiences for his novel. All Quiet was a huge success but also drew Nazi ire, leading Remarque to flee Germany. He had affairs with famous actresses and settled in Switzerland, where he wrote numerous other novels exploring the psychological impacts of war before dying in 1970.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle will be performed at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre from December 20, 2010 to January 20, 2011. The play was written by Bertolt Brecht and tells the story of Grusha, a servant who rescues her employer's child, Michael. Both Grusha and the child's biological mother, Natella, claim to be the rightful parent. The case is brought before Judge Azdak, who makes an unconventional decision. Brecht wrote the play in 1943 while exiled from Nazi Germany, incorporating themes of love, politics, and the hardship of war. The production features Rachel Green as Grusha and will be directed by Artistic Director Craig J. Faulk
Story board to pitch ideas for music video by fatehahaverstockmedia
The document outlines a story board for a music video featuring a singer performing in 5 locations: a park, empty street at night, shop, home, and bus stop. It proposes using a variety of shots like mid shot, close up, wide shot, and long shot across the locations to tell a narrative of a character walking and singing about a broken heart after being deceived by a lover. The story board considers locations, characters, shots types, and a heartbreak narrative for the music video.
Street photography involves capturing unposed moments in public spaces. It aims to document spontaneous interactions or convey a personal perspective through images. Effective street photography relies on techniques like using juxtaposition to find humor, capturing the decisive moment, and ensuring each photo tells a story. Common conventions include shooting in public areas and using composition and timing to express an idea or concept.
Japan has a long history in film dating back to the 1890s and remains one of the largest film industries in the world. Some of Japan's most notable silent films were produced in the 1920s and included works by directors like Teinosuke Kinugasa. The 1930s saw more talkies produced including works by legendary director Kenji Mizoguchi. World War II impacted the industry but post-war films saw a resurgence led by Akira Kurosawa's works in the 1940s and 1950s, which marked a golden age of Japanese cinema. Horror films also rose to prominence starting in the late 1990s with the success of works like Ringu and Ju-on: The Grudge, which
It talks about the historical perspective of Japanese Cinema. It highlights the popular genres, stalwarts in film making, golden era of Japanese Cinema... etc.
This presentation discusses Yasujiro Ozu's films and their exploration of family values and relationships. It focuses on three of his films - "Late Spring", "Tokyo Story", and "Early Summer" - which feature the character Noriko and her experiences with arranged marriage. Key themes examined are generational differences, marital relationships, and the universal topics of aging and family that profoundly move audiences. Ozu's subtle yet powerful direction and intricate shot composition are highlighted as creating detailed portrayals of human emotions and relationships.
This document provides an overview and analysis of the 1988 anime film Grave of the Fireflies directed by Isao Takahata and based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka. It summarizes the plot, which follows two siblings struggling to survive in Japan during World War 2. It also discusses the film's reflection of Japanese culture and history during this time period, as well as details about the production process and Studio Ghibli's involvement. Bibliographic sources on the film and related topics are also included.
This document provides an overview and analysis of the 1988 anime film Grave of the Fireflies directed by Isao Takahata and based on the 1967 autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka. It summarizes the film's plot about two siblings struggling to survive during World War 2 in Japan. It also discusses the film's reflection of Japanese culture and history during wartime, as well as details about the production process and Studio Ghibli's involvement. Bibliographic sources on the film and related topics are also included.
This document provides an overview and analysis of the 1988 anime film Grave of the Fireflies directed by Isao Takahata and based on the 1967 autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka. It summarizes the film's plot about two siblings struggling to survive in Japan during World War 2. It also discusses the film's reflection of Japanese culture and history during the war, including the impact of firebombings on civilian populations. The production process with Studio Ghibli is reviewed alongside the personal experiences that influenced the film's creators.
The History of Manga n Anime new 1.pptxDebabishRoy
Manga and anime have evolved significantly from their origins in Japan. Manga first began as simple drawings in the 10th century and became a recognized art form. Anime developed as a storytelling medium separate from films. Tezuka Osamu is considered the father of manga and anime, popularizing the styles with works like Astro Boy in the 1960s. Over subsequent decades, anime established many genres like mecha and shonen and saw worldwide popularity with titles like Mobile Suit Gundam, Sailor Moon, Pokémon, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Today, influential anime still emerge across genres.
Nagisa Oshima was a Japanese film director born in 1932 who died in 2013. He studied political history in university and began his career at Shochiku Ltd film production company, where he quickly rose through the ranks to direct his own films. Some of his early notable films that contributed to the Japanese New Wave cinema movement included The Cruel Story of Youth and Night And Fog In Japan. He later founded his own production company due to controversies surrounding his films. Oshima directed over 30 films throughout his career, many of which explored taboo and controversial topics and pushed creative boundaries through their graphic sexual or political content.
Kinji Fukasaku was a pioneering Japanese director who had a career spanning over 40 years and directing over 60 films. He is best known for films like Battle Royale and the Japanese portions of Tora Tora Tora. Fukasaku helped pioneer a more realistic and gritty depiction of gangster films in the 1970s with films like Battles Without Honor and Humanity. His biggest international hit was Battle Royale, which was released near the end of his career and reflected his own experiences being conscripted to a munitions factory at age 15 during World War 2. Fukasaku continued directing until his death from cancer in 2003, leaving behind a prolific and influential career in Japanese cinema.
The document discusses the evolution of anime from its origins in early 20th century Japan to its current global popularity. It begins with some of the earliest anime works from 1907-1917, created through experimental cutout animation techniques. Major developments included influence from Disney films in the 1930s-40s, the growth of major studios like Toei Animation in the 1950s, anime propaganda during WWII, and Osamu Tezuka's influential work in the 1950s. Anime gained international popularity through strategic marketing and by drawing from a variety of sources including manga, novels, and video games.
The document discusses various topics related to film studies for week twelve, including the anime film Spirited Away directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It provides details on the plot and critical reception of Spirited Away, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It also briefly summarizes the 1950 Japanese film Rashomon and covers a short history of anime, its origins in manga, and how it became a major film genre in Japan from 1940 onward. Additional sections cover postmodern indie shorts, video games, and animated films.
The document discusses various aspects of Japanese culture, including sports, film, and music. It covers popular sports in Japan like baseball, football, and sumo wrestling. It describes the major genres and directors of Japanese film, especially anime and horror. It also provides details about Tokyo, the capital city, including its history and important locations. Traditional and modern Japanese music are briefly outlined as well.
This document summarizes a screening of the historical drama "Emperor" about the decision making process regarding Emperor Hirohito's role after World War 2. The producers discuss why they made the film and details of filming. Key points include:
- The film focuses on Gen. MacArthur's investigation into whether Hirohito should be tried for war crimes or allowed to remain as symbolic leader.
- Filming locations included New Zealand and the Imperial Palace in Japan with rare permission.
- Producers aimed to show both American and Japanese perspectives on the postwar period.
- Some criticism was raised about the film not including the role of Japanese American translators who served during the occupation.
This document discusses Yukio Mishima's concept of consciousness and determination as depicted in his novels Spring Snow and The Decay of the Angle. It summarizes Mishima's background and literary career, the history of Japanese literature, and analyzes how the main characters in the two novels represent different aspects of consciousness and determination. The protagonist in Spring Snow lacks consciousness and dies young, while the protagonist in The Decay of the Angle is too conscious of himself and isolates from society. The hero of Mishima's tetralogy has both consciousness and determination, using his life to contribute to humanity. The document concludes that for Mishima, consciousness and determination must work together to build a positive future for Japan.
Akira Kurosawa was a legendary Japanese film director known for films like Seven Samurai and Rashomon. He believed a director needs thorough knowledge of every aspect of film production to effectively command the entire production. Kurosawa was influenced by Western art styles and American directors like John Ford. He is considered one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time for revolutionizing global cinema.
The document provides background information on Grave of the Fireflies, including that it is based on a short story by Akiyuki Nosaka and directed by Isao Takahata. It summarizes the plot, which follows two orphaned children struggling to survive in Japan during World War II following firebombing raids. Context is provided on the firebombing campaigns, their impact on civilian populations, and the cultural and historical influences that shaped the film.
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3. Biography
1. Family Life Experience:
• Born 1903, Fukagawa 深川, Tokyo
• Later moved to Matzuzaka 松坂, Mie
• Remained bachelor, simple family life with mother
Paradox : Family subjects major topic in his films.
Examples : conflicts between generations,
growing teens’ complex, and marriage dilemma for
females being the sole child in family
• Served in military, including in Shanghai and
Singapore
4. 2. Education:
• Meiji nursery school
• Primary school
• Entered now Ujiyamada High School (Mie
Prefecture) in 1916 (age 13) and became
fascinated by films, especially Western movies
in this period
Important Turning point
of his life
5. 3.Influences :
• Experiencing Western films (Mostly American, some
Swedish) Modern filmmaking techniques,
however style not much influenced
• Minimalism: influenced by Japanese plain daily life,
shomingeki(庶民劇) Detailed depictions, large
portion of dialogues included, vague story lines,
ambiguity (=slightness) as in Japanese aesthetics,
“Japanese flavor”, creative style of plotting, positioning
(“tatami shot”), static style…
• Relatively unique. Stories mostly originated from his
own life experiences, wartime stories
• Appreciated and has a great impact on modern
Western directors
6. • Collaborators :
1. Kogo Noda (野田 高梧):
Japanese screenwriter.
Collaborated with Ozu in many films
including Sword of Penitence ,
Late Spring and An Autumn Afternoon
2. Setzuko Hara (原 節子):
Famous Japanese actress, known for elegance
and well developed acting skills.
Highly complimented by Ozu
3. Chisyu Ryu (笠 智衆) :
Famous Japanese actor, participated in
as many as 32 of Ozu’s films including
Late Spring, Early Summer, Tokyo Story, and
An Autumn Afternoon
7. 4. Accomplishments:
• Directed 53 films in total
• Year Events
1923 (20) Entered Shochiku Film Company (松竹株式会社)
1927 (24) Directed 1st film, Sword of Penitence (懺悔の刃)
1933 (30) Directed Silent Film Passing Fancy (出来ごころ)
1941 (38) Directed
Brothers and Sisters of the Todas (戸田家の兄妹)
1942 (39) Directed There Was a Father (父ありき)
1947 (44) His 1st film directed after WWll :
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (長屋紳士録)
8. Year Accomplishments
1949 (46) Directed Late Spring (晩春), his 1st film collaborating
famous actress Setsuko Hara (原 節子)
1951 (48) Directed Early Summer (麦秋)
1952 (49) Directed The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (お茶漬けの味),
recreated from originally banned 1939 script
1953 (50) Directed Tokyo Story (東京物語), cooperating with screenwriter
Kogo Noda (野田 高梧)
1958 (55) Directed Equinox Flower (彼岸花)
1962 (59) Directed An Autumn Afternoon (秋刀魚の味, "The Taste of
Mackerel Pike"), his final and culminating work.
Starring Keiji Sada and Chishu Ryu , famous actors.
9. 5. Reputation:
• Not well-known until release of his last film
An Autumn Afternoon
• Several film censored previously including The
Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
• According to Michael Atkinson, “Home With Ozu”,
described as “least sensational filmmaker of all
time”, but “still evoking new scholarship, igniting
theatrical retrospectives”, “most Japanese of
that nation’s great directors
• “One of very few cinema giants”
– Jean Renoir, French film director, author