Mamoru Hosoda is a relatively new animator and director in the Japanese Anime film industry. His works recently have started to be widely known internationally. Many claim his artistic works rival those of Hayao Miyazaki, the most famous director and creator of Studio Ghibli.
Hosoda was born on September 19, 1967 in the town of Nakaniikawa, Toyama, Japan. He grew up in Toyama Prefecture until his high school graduation when he was 18-year-old. Afterwards, he studied oil painting at the Kanazawa College of Art in Kanazawa, Japan. His interest in the film industry began since little, and by middle school he was producing 8mm camcorder movies. He was inspired by the classics from Disney and Hayao Miyazaki’s works, who still is a big fan of and admires greatly, to become an animator. Between his first masterpiece film and his second he got married inspiring for later themes that appear in his films.
The animator began working at Toei Animation in 1989, where he worked as director or key animator for television and movie on worldwide known anime franchises such as; Digimon, Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, and Sailor Moon. He first gained the public’s attention when he directed Digimon Adventure: Born of Koromon(1999), Digimon Adventure: Bokura no War Game(2000), and the sixth movie of the One Piece series, One Piece: Omatsuri Danshaku to Himitsu no Shima(2005). That same year he decided to work for Madhouse, where he would continue his work as a director and create two of his masterpieces The Girl Who Leapt through Time and Summer Wars. In 2011, he leaves Madhouse to establish his own animation studio, Studio Chizu. Studio Chizu was created to specifically produce feature-length theatrical animated movies. Currently there are...
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...ible. His movies all use science fiction and fantasy to emphasize human relationships because he believes by doing so, the audience is more likely to discover what they don’t notice or value in their day-to-day life. This philosophy and style has made the public compare him and his movies to Hayao Miyazaki. Critics have also noticed how he uses female protagonist in all of his original movies. When asked, he said it was because men are too concerned over work and success, while women have the larger role in life leaving more space for artistic creation. Hosoda seems to have no movie failures but less recognition or acknowledgement in his early work in television and movies. Mamoru Hosoda is currently working on his next film, although it is still in the brainstorming process. One thing is for sure, fans will be eagerly waiting for what he has in store next.
Steven Spielberg, the only child of Leah and Arnold Spielberg, was born on December 18, 1946 at the beginning of the Baby Boom years in Cincinnati, Ohio. It does not take a great stretch of the imagination to see that Steven’s film influences were derived from his father’s experience as a World War II veteran and computer technician and his mother’s past profession as a concert pianist. The love and amount of technology, history, and music within Steven’s films can all be traced back to his early life with his family.
He is the director of the famous Lord Of The Rings trilogy and The Hobbit movies. When the Lord Of The Rings movies came out in 2001, 2002, and 2003, 3-D movies were not popularized yet, but the effects of the movie were so astonishing that film critics around the world acknowledged that they were the best films made yet and that they were so ahead of time with its effects and resolution. However, when The Hobbit’s first movie had its premier in 2012 with 3-D effect as an option, it did not get the same response as the Lord Of The Rings movies. Don’t get me wrong, the effects were still something over the top, but what the 3-D effect did was making the shots seem like the movie almost was animated. The effects were so good that mixed with the 3-D, people couldn’t tell if there were real actors or a computer who made up the
Chuck Jones was born on September 21, 1912. Jones entered the animation industry in 1932 as a cel washer at Ubbe Iwerks Studio after graduating from the Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of Arts). He joined the Leon Schlesinger Studio, later sold to Warner Bros., as an animator in 1936. There, Jones was assigned to Tex Avery’s animation unit. In 1938, at the age of 25, he directed his first animated film “The Night Watchman.” Jones remained at Warner Bros. animation until it closed in 1962, though he had a brief stint with Disney Studios in 1955 during a break at Warner Bros.
David Andrew Fincher began making movies when he was eight years old. Born on August 28, 1962, Fincher grew up in California. After graduating from Ashland high school, Fincher skipped postsecondary education. In its place, Fincher worked at Korty Films with John Korty, and Industrial Light and Magic with George Lucas. Fincher’s first directing jobs were for music videos and TV commercials. His first big screen debut was Aliens3, but Se7en was his first major success. His adaptati...
Katsuhiro Otomo - Katsuhiro Otomo a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga film ’Akira’ and its animated film adaptation. Akira is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. This had an impact on animation as he used anime to create a film. This would mean that more animators will begin to use this type of animation in their programmes and films.
Early in his career he created one of horror film, Nosferatu (1922); his last film was Tabu (1931), a documentary film in the South Seas. He was one of the pioneers in the technical side of the film industry, experimenting special effects in Nosferatu and Faust and the use of the moving camera in The Last Laugh. But at the same time he was a master storyteller, a director who could describe simple stories with a vast range of emotion and meaning.
From Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai, to the recent box office sensation, The Last Samurai, the famed Japanese warrior, the samurai, has been the subject of hundreds of films. Classically depicted as carrying two swords and sporting a top knot (chonmage), the samurai has been portrayed not only as a warrior and expert swordsman, but as a man of discipline and principles consistent with the bushido.
Spielberg was born in Cincinnati on December 18th, 1946. His father was an electrical engineer, and his mother a concert pianist. Steven seemed to get the best elements from both of them. Spielberg had an early fascination with cinema and began making amateur films at a very young age. At 13, he won a local contest for his 40-minute film, Escape to Nowhere. Ironically, Steven was unable to get into a film school, so he settled for majoring in English Literature at California State University. After graduation, he set out to Hollywood, where he was determined to be successful. In 1974, he received his first break for The Sugarland Express. The film went on to win a Cannes Film Festival Award for best screenplay. The following year saw JAWS explode. This very successful horror film, depicting a man-eating shark, captured the attention of the world and has become part of contemporary pop culture. The movie was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars and won several Oscars for technical categories and for its very distinctive score.
Steven Spielberg, a screenwriter, Director, and producer born on December 18th, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Growing up Steven was an amateur filmmaker. He became one of the youngest television
With many different genres and types of filmmaking, it can result in a large variety of stories and conflicts. Nevertheless, film has always brought people together as a society. If there is one thing everyone can notice about films is the achievement in style and directing. The three directors talked about in this paper are the most successful at delivering a breathtaking style and direction to their films. Baz Luhrmann, Wes Anderson, and Martin Scorsese have produced and directed films over decades and each film as impacted not only the United States but worldwide. With the unmistakable trademarks that each director has, it is very easy to feel sucked into the world in which they are shaping around you and the story. Because of these three directors, the film world and industry has been revolutionized for many centuries to come.
Hayao Miyazaki has been revolutionary in Japanese animation. A mangaka (an artist/writer/creator of manga, Japanese comics), an animator, and storyteller, Miyazaki has not only been very successful in his work, well known and loved by many, but has changed the world of anime with his unique style of drawing. Through passion and hard work, Miyazaki has become one of the most successful animators in all of Japan.
Steven Spielberg was born on December 18, 1947 in Cincinnati Ohio, and spent most of his childhood in Haddon Township, New Jersey. As a baby, Steven's family would say he was different or unusual. When he was eight Steven saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and he became terrified of everything he saw (Rubin 11). He attempted to get rid of his fear by scaring his younger sisters. He tortured them by telling them horrifying stories, and attacking them.
The success of the film led to the establishment of a new animation studio, Studio Ghibli, at which Miyazaki has directed, written, and produced many other films with Takahata and recently with Toshio Suzuki. All of his films were enjoyed and successful. Especially Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke it was the highest profit domestic film in Japan's history at the time of its release. And was the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards. Later during his period of semi-retirement in 2001, Miyazaki spent time with the daughters of his friend. They would later become his inspiration for his next film which would become one of his biggest commerci...
British Feminist Film theorist Laura Mulvey uses psychoanalysis to show the pre-existing “patterns of fascinations” (Mulvey) with the sexual differences in society that is portrayed through film. She says in her paper “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, that there is a structured film form that feeds a patriarchal order because of social patterns based on the fascinated subject-women. Drawing from Freud’s Three Essays on Sexuality, Mulvey states that cinema allows for a lot of pleasures, and one of these pleasures is scopophilia, or the love of looking, because there is pleasure in looking as well as being looked at. Film allows for an amazing outlet for this scopophilia because it gives one the pleasure of looking at something pleasurable on screen as well as scopophilia is a narcissistic aspect because the audience will identify with a character on screen. With the patriarchal structural form in place as well as the scopophilia present in films, it leads to the main idea of Mulvey’s paper; that Hollywood films use women to create a pleasurable experience for men. In the films the Mulvey studied, the women are just objects to be looked at never the main driver of the plot. Budd Boetticher put it best when he said, “What counts is what the heroine provokes, or rather what she represents. She is the one, or rather the love or fear she inspires in the hero, or else the concern he feels for her, who makes him act the way he does. In herself the woman has not the slightest importance.” (Mulvey)
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