Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was one of Japan’s most important film directors of the twentieth century. His work spanned over fifty years and included a broad range of genres from historical epics to gangster dramas. His films not only told interesting stories but also broke new ground. Many of his innovations were technical, such as his use of the long lens, his penchant for shooting with multiple cameras, and his virtuosic editing. Other innovations were tied to his emphasis on details within his

The “Rashomon Effect” is “the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.”(Rashomon-effect). Japan’s and China’s interpretation of the “Nanking Massacre “during World War II. Japan historians assumed China historians exaggerated the

benefits of writing in the first person. Some other points are displayed in front. First I will discuss the style and variations then everything else. First of all, there are lots of things to discuss in styles and variations like detective novels, Rashomon effect, and Sequential multiple viewpoints, separate multiple viewpoints. So starting with

In feudal Japan, a young man named Oda Hachirou was once famed samurai and Japan’s hero under Lord Shin Nijimura who sought to bring peace to the nation. Born on May 23, 1055, the young warrior came from a small family of three, his parents, and a younger sister. He traveled across the country to learn Bushido, proven to be worthy after his father, Tatsuo Hachirou. Until recently, the Japanese town of Seika became plagued with disease and sickness, eventually attacked by vengeful spirits and demons;

Humans go through many events and friends, relatives, and acquaintances tell each other information about a dear loved one or a dear friend. It is up to each individual to know if the information that have been told is either true or a rumor. Humans tend to mix up the truth with small lies, in order for the information to be more entertaining. The reason humans mix up the truth is because they love to be entertained. Throughout life, it is important for humans to recognize the limitations of human

Neorealism, as the name suggests, is a new realism. Louis Giannetti gives a definition in the book Understanding Movies that “Strongly realistic in its techniques, neorealism emphasized documentary aspects of film art, stressing loose episodic plots, unextraordinary event and characters, natural lighting, actual location settings, nonprofessional actors, a preoccupation with poverty and social problems, and an emphasis on humanistic and democratic ideas.” (Giannetti, 2004, 538). Bicycle Thieves and

Asian cinema is refer to film from East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia. What make asian unique is faces, languages, their own traditional costumes and also geophysical location. In the early silent film era, the first short film produced is in Japan called Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei from 1898. In the forms of chinese martial arts, emerged in 1920s in Shanghai. Popular with Wuxia ( swordplay) and Gongfu ( kung fu ).While in the early sound era, earliest sound film

respect for our ancestors is, it is just that we don’t find a necessarily important aspect of our life to honor regularly; we don’t live in a culture where honor and family status is quite as important. This is can be seen quite well in the works of Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The stories to focus on that preach Japanese ideals very well and clearly include: The Martyr, Kesa and Morito, and In a Grove. The Martyr has good examples of honor, religious importance, and dignity. Kesa and Morito include

In Jean-Paul Sartre’s preface to Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, he asks of a specific reader, (Europeans who were complicit in, or beneficiaries of, colonialism) to, “Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment”. Here Sartre must be referring to Karl Marx’s 1843 letter to Arnold Ruge regarding the French revolution. Marx says that the despotic government of Germany ought to cause Germans to feel

Samurai Ethos in the Nineteenth Century Reflected in 13 Assassins In the movie 13 Assassins, Miike develops a critical voice of the changing society of Japan. The elements of the samurai ethos appeals directly to the humanitarian issues caused personally by the hands evil Lord Naritsugu. Shinzaemon Shimada, the protagonist is given a giant task to defeat Lord Naritsugu and to come up with a plan that will allow him to win his “gamble.” The team is 12 well-trained samurai to devise a plan to end