The Movie ' In A Grove ' By Akira Kurosawa

The Samurai’s Tale by Erik Christian Haugaard is about a boy named Taro, the protagonist in the story. The major characters in the story are Taro, Yoshitoki, Lord Takeda Katsuyori, Lord Akiyama Nobutomo, and Togan. The setting of the story is in Japan, in around the 16th century. In the beginning of the story he was presented as a gift by the great Lord Takeda Shingen to Lord Akiyama after his parents had been killed. By using his wits and suppressing his fierce pride, Taro slowly escalates the ranks of his lord’s household until he achieves his greatest goal—becoming a samurai like his father and Lord Akiyama, whom he has come to admire. The life of a samurai is not so easy, Taro finds himself sacrificing opportunities of love and friendship

Akira Kurowasa’s film, Rashomon, (released in 1951) is a remarkable detective/crime film which revolutionized the film making industry and won many prestigious awards, and was said to the best foreign film out there. The scene took place in the Ancient Japan. The story of murder talked and showed a Japanese woman who got raped, and her husband getting killed in a sword fight. The Woodcutter who was one of the protagonists claimed that he saw the testimony through his very own eyes. However, there are four distinctive points of view, each telling their own side of the murder. Unfortunately, many of the Western movie critics misunderstood the film, or just simply oversimplified its meaning. They believed the true meaning of the story was the subjectivity of the truth, which is not what the story talked about but rather it’s about the quicksand of ego. The quicksand of ego is an important term since its one of the many moral implications shown in Rashomon which ties nicely with philosophical topics as well as moral dialogue itself. Rashomon effect which is defined as Kurosawa saying the film is not about the truth, but the quicksand of ego, which Priest who was another main character refused to accept. The true and pure meaning behind the Rashomon effect is that we cannot see the truth in everything, because we as a society are questioning our true believes and goals in life. It is very difficult to find truth, especially when

The film ‘The Castle’ by Rob Sitch presents a number of distinctive and quintessential Australian Voices, these include ‘the Aussie Battler’, the voice of family and mateship. This response will examine how film techniques and language are used to create distinctly Australian voices and then consider the degree or extent to which they are singularly Australia. The main character Darryl Kerrigan represents the most significance voice ‘the Aussie Battler’ in the film ‘The Castle’. In the High Court scene, the low angle shot of Darryl outside the High Court elevates his status to be almost valiant and how his courage is compared with the imposing nature of the High Court.

The Samurai’s Tale is about a young boy named Taro, who had became the hero of the story. The main characters in the story was Lord Akiyama, Lord Takeda Shingen, and Togan. This story took place in Japan around the 16th century. The story began with Taro, Murakami Harutomo, arguing with his mother about what she had been telling him to wear for an event that was going to happen without him knowing about. Later that day Taro saw that soldiers came attacking his house, his mother leaving him with Yone in a chest trying to keep them safe in a storehouse that had laid behind the house. A soldier then found them both and took them out of the chest, then as they walked out of the store hold, he found his mother on the ground dead. A plot twist that

Musui 's Story is a samurai 's autobiography that portrays the Tokugawa society as it was lived during Katsu Kokichi 's life (1802 - 1850). Katsu Kokichi (or Musui) was a man born into a family with hereditary privilege of audience with the shogun, yet he lived a life unworthy of a samurai 's way, running protection racket, cheating, stealing, and lying. Before we discuss how Musui 's lifestyle was against the codes that regulated the behavior of the samurai, it is essential that the role of the samurai in Japanese society be understood.

Anticipatory socialization is an agent of socialization process, facilitated by social interactions, in which non-group-members learn to take on the values and standards of groups that they aspire to join, so as to ease their entry into the group and help them interact competently once they have been accepted by it. Many of the farmers featured in the film have started crops as early as 5 or 8 years of age as soon as they came to live in the United States. This method would turn crops into an integrated knowledge for the immigrants and children for them to work endlessly at a fast and steady pace without being overwhelmed by the tiresomeness of the work due to experience. Zulema started working in the fields at the age of 5. Victor and Zulema’s mother began picking crops when they were 8. It is unknown when Perla started picking crops, in fact, it is unknown if Perla or any of her family picks crops at all as they have never been seen engaging in such in any part of the film. Most of the farm workers have learned about crops through their families. Zulema’s grandmother, for example, taught her entire family about crops which became their primary knowledge.

The documentary Tree of Iron presents the quest of Peter Schmidt, an ethno-archeologist, to discover and recreate the ancient African process of iron smelting. Schmidt hypothesizes that ancient east African technology was not as primitive as other scientists might of thought. Therefore, he travelled to a village in Tanzania called Nyungwe, where the Haya people reside, to try to witness the process of forging iron first hand. Because this ancient African tradition is not written down, Schmidt joins village elders Norbert Kajuna and Herman Kariba, who both remember the iron smelting process, in making an iron furnace in the same way their ancestors did several years ago.

2. Harutomo Murakami (Taro)- The hero of the story, the son of a poor samurai who died in battle

The film Glory by Edward Zwick is one of the most well-known films of all time. The film itself is solely based upon the first formal unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War which consist of all African American men. They were essentially the very first unit of United States Colored Troops. They were formally known for their courageous attempts to and actions at Fort Wagner in 1863. The film is set in many different locations such as New York, Maryland, South Carolina and Massachusetts. In each of these different locations events took place that shaped our history. For example on November twenty seventh of 1862 Robert Shaw started to train soldiers. July eighteenth 1863 the Colonel Shaw and his troops attempted to take Fort Wagner, which didn’t succeed.

The film, Radical Evil, by Stefan Ruzowitzky, argues that there is genocidal potential in each of us. Personal responsibility is not lost, but rather shown through the courage to step out or the willingness to conform. Radical Evil attempts to explain conformity through a series of psychological tests such as the Milgram Experiment and the Asch Conformity Test. Through psychologists, sociologists, historians, and primary sources, the film suggests that everyone is capable of murder or genocide given the right environment such as military orders or the atmosphere of war. Essentially, the perpetrator becomes the victim of their own psyche and circumstances. However, allowing the Einsatzgruppen, or any other Nazi affiliated group, to assume

Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon tells the story of a murder. It flashes back to the event four times, each time as told by a different person. The present-time section of the plot occurs at a gate under which some characters take shelter from the rain. Three men can be found there - a woodcutter who repeatedly proclaims his misunderstanding, a priest who says that

The director choose this specific subjects to demonstrate the Japanese culture and hierarchy grading system. The Seven Samurai represents the spirit and wisdom, loyal, optimistic, martial arts. The film

The film Seven Samurai is about a village of farmers who have repeatedly suffered yearly raids by a group of merciless bandits. These bandits steal from the farmers and kidnap the women. Unable to protect themselves, the farmers decide to hire a samurai to do the job for them. This changes the course of their lives in numerous ways.

It is a classic story of a small force of highly skilled warriors who are vastly outnumbered and who do not expect to survive but know that they must give their lives for the good of their country. It has strong influences of the Kurasawa classic 7 samurai, the director said that he thought this is the movie Kurasawa would have made if he had the money and technology of today and wanted to make an all-out action movie.

He claims to have tricked the samurai to step off the mountain trail with him and look at an arsenal of ancient swords he had found. He then ties the samurai to the tree and returns to capture the samurai’s wife, giving the impression that Tajomaru is sly and shrewd. In Tajomaru’s version of the story, he entices the woman making it seem as if the woman falls in love with him. This however, is contradicted by the other stories where it is said that Tajomaru forced himself onto the woman. Out of honor and respect, Tajomaru frees the samurai and they begin to duel for the woman’s love. Tajomaru tells of a valorous and honorable sword battle that ensued between the two, whereas the story of the woodcutter states that the duel was clumsy and that Tajomaru took a cheap shot at the samurai, which ultimately ended his life. He tells this embellished, spectacular story of a damsel in distress, how he is to rescue her and they are to marry and live happily ever after together, to disguise his weakness of being repulsive and a