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Oct 9, 2019 · These five films represent five key genres of Japanese cinema. Each film was carefully selected in line with the following three criteria: The story must be easy to follow. The entertainment level must be high. The film must be a good representation of its genre and Japanese filmmaking in general. Five genres to start with: Drama, Anime, Comedy ...
Jul 25, 2023 · The first Japanese movies, which are now sadly lost to history, were late-19 th-century adaptations of famous kabuki theater scenes and popular ghost tales. And since those tended to take place in the past around the mid-Edo period (1603–1868), it was a short leap from those stories to the creation of cinematic period dramas or jidaigeki ...
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May 6, 2020 · Richie notes how the West viewed cinema as an extension of photography at first, before it transformed into a form of entertainment, merging with theatre and vaudeville shows. Japan, however, treated cinema as the latter example right from the beginning, utilising it as an extension of the nation’s much-loved theatre performances, specially ...
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With the Allied occupation following the end of WWII, Japan was exposed to over a decade's worth of American animation that had been banned under the war-time government. Thus, the seeds were sewn for decades of revolutionary Japanese anime. Kenji Mizoguchi made The 47 Ronin, Parts 1 and 2 (1941), a faithful adaptation of the oft-filmed feudal epic...
The 1950s were the zenith of Japanese cinema, and three of its films (Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Tokyo Story) made the Sight & Sound's 2002 Critics and Directors Poll for the best films of all time. The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and marked the entrance of Japan...
The very success of the mainstream Japanese cinema of the 1950s enabled studios like Shochiku, especially, but also Nikkatsu, to allow a greater sense of directorial freedom of expression and the breakdown of classic genres. This was exacerbated when the industry began a steep decline after 1963 due, mostly, to the introduction of television. This ...
In the early 1970s, continuing a trend from the late 60s, younger film makers such as Koji Wakamatsu (b. 1936), utilized the growing roman-poruno (romantic pornography) genre to inject the youthful politics of the New Wave into films like Tenshi No Kokotsu (Ecstasy of the Angels,1972). Taking the genre to the height of hardcore pornography, Nagisa ...
Of course, by the end of the 1980s, the drought of great filmmaking in Japan was over, and it was not live action features but anime that ended it. Hayao Miyazaki adapted his manga, Nausicaä of the Valley of Windinto a feature length anime film with tremendous success in 1984. Katsuhiro Otomo followed suit with his Akirain 1988, a feature length an...
Shohei Imamura again won the Golden Palm (shared with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami), this time for The Eel(1997), joining Alf Sjöberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and Bille August as only the fourth two-time recipient. Takeshi Kitano emerged as a significant filmmaker with works such as Sonatine (1993), Kids Return (1996), and Hana-bi(1997), which w...
Battle Royale was released, directed by the venerable Kinji Fukasaku based on a popular novel by the same name, by Koushun Takami. It gained cult film status in Japan, Britain, and the United States. The film presents a dystopian future, in which "At the dawn of the millennium, the nation collapsed. At fifteen percent unemployment, ten million were...
Yomota pays particular attention to the ways cinema was introduced to Japan and its reception alongside well-established traditions like Kabuki. The parallels with literature and cinema cannot be ignored, and in this field, too, Yomota has critically absorbed adaptations of important literary worksfrom cinema’s inception in Japan —the gothic
Essential films are Princess Mononoke (1997), and Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi / Spiriting Away (2001), while two other directors to take note of are Kastsuhiro Otomo ( Akira) and Satoshi Kon ( Paprika ). The current panorama. Currently, Naomi Kawase ( The Mourning Forest) is a director worth watching.
An Introduction to Early Japanese Cinema. The history of Japanese Cinema begins with the premiere of Edison’s Kinetoscope in 1886. The following year, the Lumiere brother’s Cinematograph from France was introduced to the Japanese public. In addition, in 1898, two cinematographers from the Lumiere company visited Japan and shot on various ...
