Cinema of Japan

interactions with other cultures. In regards to the movie Tampopo, he uses this as a paradigm to show the way Japanese redefine themselves by the West. This film shows the international position of Japan by incorporating western ideas and culture. The article then goes into the interpretation of the movie, the widow (Tampopo) learning to make ramen, and the Japanese truck driver who is also looked at as the cowboy. The cowboy is the typical Japanese patriarch, however leaves her in the end scene. Regarding the movie Tampopo and the essay The Ambivalent Self of the Contemporary Japanese, this essay emphasizes the reasons the film is so eccentric in the way that the Western Culture plays a huge part on Japanese culture. The essay Filming “Chinatown”: Fake Visions, Bodily Transformations talks about the small Chinese towns that popped up in places like New York, where local people marketed it as a tourist attraction. The china towns created in film are not as representation of the real china towns there modeled after but of a new world. The “china Town” in cinema is looked at as a magical and full of possibility. The other way it is looked at is through the motif of opiates through raids of police the Chinese are stopped. One last concept of the Chinese American is the laundry mat though in cinema pictured to be in “China Town” it is actually located outside to account for the white American market. The next idea talked about is the roles Chinese American’s had in film. The…

power; which ultimately leads to his death (“Mr. William Shakespeare and the internet”). The most well known adaption is a Japanese film named Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) (“Throne of Blood (1957”). The Throne of Blood is often credited as the greatest Macbeth adaptation. An example of a lesser-known adaptation would be an American film named Scotland, Pa (Billy Morrissette, 2001) (“Amazon.com: Scotland, Pa”). Both films are adaptations of Macbeth, and there are many things that…

Akira Kurosawa was born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan on March 23, 1910 and died September 6, 1998 at the age of 88 of a stroke. Kurosawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who to this day is regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa began his journey in the Japanese film industry in 1936, after a brief pursuit of painting. Kurosawa debut as a directer after many years of working on films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, with his…

Joe Muti 11/26/17 Professor Carmen FTV The Good, the Bad, and the Wookie Akira Kurosawa’s Influence on Sergio Leone and George Lucas The post war renaissance in Japan had a great influence on contemporary American filmmaking. Viewing Akira Kurosawa’s films, one will see his influence on modern filmmakers such as Italy’s Sergio Leone and America’s George Lucas, through storytelling, cinematography and character development. Akira had a unique and genius style of creating new movies from…

long distance towards the audiences, also the depth of field gave the audiences a very different experience that they have never been through before. Auguste and Louis Lumiere’s invention and actions has helped to build the existence of cinematograpgy or the ‘cinema’ that we have until today. The Cinematographe has developed countless opportunities for the Brothers to project their motion pictures to the people in France. Of course, at the same time, motion pictures have been developed by other…

that Japan’s post-war cinema was too censored, Americanized, and propagandistic to provide any real insight into the impact of the atomic bombings on the attitude of Japanese society. Following Japan’s defeat in World War II, US General Douglas MacArthur was tasked with revising the country’s constitution and ending the Japanese Empire. To remove Japan’s perceived war-like tendencies, MacArthur launched an “enlightenment campaign,” in which American films were screened throughout Japan for the…

How do the Westerners perceive the Asian culture? How does an audience viewing a movie made in their own country see the film? And how does cult cinema make an impact in the history of film, bringing in vastly different cultures together to appreciate art. Those are the questions I'll be answering. In this essay let’s talk about the cultural differences and consumption of the movie; Ichi the Killer, directed by Takashi Miike, originally a manga made by Hideo Yamamoto. I will be talking about the…

MAJOR THEMES IN THE NOVEL Individualism A white tiger symbolizes power and majesty in East Asian cultures, such as in China and Japan. It is also a symbol for individualism and uniqueness. Balram is seen as different from those he grew up with. He is the one who got out of the “Darkness” and found his way into the “Light”. Throughout the book, there are references to how Balram is very different from those back in his home environment. He is referred to as the “White Tiger” Freedom In an…

They labelled it the cinema de papa (old fogies cinema). They put forward and discussed many different propositions and ideas in the pages of the cahiers du cinema in the 50s. The most significant one which had the greatest influence on new wave films was la politique des auteurs (The policy of authors). Largely created by Truffaut in his famous essay a certain tendency in French Cinema he argued that a film, through the way in which its images are presented to the audience on the screen,…

C6.3 Media Awareness Demonstrator 3 Introduction 1. Give the following information: a) the name of the documentary or short film Cliff The name of the documentary is called The Cliff Hangers. b) the year it was made The documentary was made in 1950. c) the website address The website address is https://www.nfb.ca/film/cliff_hangers/ d) the producer/filmmaker The film was produced by The National Film Board e) the length of the documentary or short film The total length of the video was…