Almost since its beginning, Japanese cinema entailed themes, characters and motifs that occasionally surpassed even the borders of the surreal. Moreover, even if the rest of the world usually disdains them as bizarre and incoherent, the local filmmakers have continued shooting them, chiefly because they appeal to the character and idiosyncrasy of the Japanese. However, a number of them have reached audiences outside the country, largely due to the enlargement of the cult audience in the recent decades, thus resulting in a large number of similar releases in the west. The following list contains 20 of them, in random order. 1. Survival Style 5+ (Gen Sekiguchi, 2004) The utterly absurd script consists of five stories that intermingle. Aman repeatedly …show more content…
However, over the years it amassed a huge cult following. The movie initiates with "The Mole Borthers", a comedic duo that mainly slap each other and act as the narrators of the film. The rest of the absurd characters include three brothers that are unpopular with women, one of whom is a plump American Boy, a girl who fights monsters in other dimensions, a teacher who has a relationship with a student and a man who sprays various liquid from his nipples. More of a collage of Japanese cultural references than an actual film, "Funky forest" nevertheless includes a wonderful cast with actors like Tadanobu Asano, Hideaki Anno, Susumu Terajima, Ryo Kase, Rinko Kikuchi etc. 10. House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) The script of this particular film was considered so absurd at the time that no director would take it on in fear of ruining his or her careers. Obayashi however, wanted to direct it since he initially read it, a plan he accomplished after two years. Gorgeous, a young girl and her six friends visit her aunt's house, where a number of ridiculous supernatural phenomena
What if you had to peer council a person that you couldn't even stand? Would you be mad at me? What would you do if it happened to you? One of the main characters is a girl named Jasmine, but they call her Jazz for short. Jazz is basically a goth girl and she has black hair with a little pink on top.
So basically the movie still had the Pinks ladies and the T-birds but all the characters were switched around. The main Pink lady was over being a Pink Lady and was over being with the main T-Bird. So the whole movie she’s looking for what she calls a “Cool Rider”. Then ends up discovering it was the nerd guys she’s been rejecting all year, which also happens to be Sandys cousin from Grease one. Wasn’t really much to the movie other than corny romance movie.
I choose Reider’s “Spirited Away: Film of the Fantastic and Evolving Japanese Folk Symbols” as my article because of my interest in the film. I first saw Spirited Away back in 2002, and, since then, I have come to recognize and think about the symbolism and storyline deeper. My database search began by searching for animation; however, animation is too broad of a topic to search through so I narrowed it down to “Studio Ghibli,” which has been one of my artistic inspirations for years. I stumbled on the article pertaining to Spirited Away specifically by chance after narrowing the formats of the articles to scholarly journals in English. I picked this article in particular because
The book HIDEOUT, written by Gordon Korman, begins with an adventurous group of middle school kids that come to the rescue of one of their friends to hide a fierce Doberman before a crooked businessman can bring him harm. The story starts out in the beginning of August, in Cedarville, New York, with the school friends all heading off to summer camps but they did not know they would be sneaking a dog along with them. There are two main characters in each of the summer camps and the story takes place in all three of these camps. These summer camps are in the woods of New York’s Catskill Mountains. They are Camp Ebony Lake, Camp Ta-da and Camp Endless Pines. These three camps may be in the same woods but they are spread out and are miles away from each other. There is a different theme to each camp and it makes the book more interesting because the setting is always changing.
The postmodern cinema emerged in the 80s and 90s as a powerfully creative force in Hollywood film-making, helping to form the historic convergence of technology, media culture and consumerism. Departing from the modernist cultural tradition grounded in the faith in historical progress, the norms of industrial society and the Enlightenment, the postmodern film is defined by its disjointed narratives, images of chaos, random violence, a dark view of the human state, death of the hero and the emphasis on technique over content. The postmodernist film accomplishes that by acquiring forms and styles from the traditional methods and mixing them together or decorating them. Thus, the postmodern film challenges the “modern” and the modernist cinema along with its inclinations. It also attempts to transform the mainstream conventions of characterization, narrative and suppresses the audience suspension of disbelief. The postmodern cinema often rejects modernist conventions by manipulating and maneuvering with conventions such as space, time and story-telling. Furthermore, it rejects the traditional “grand-narratives” and totalizing forms such as war, history, love and utopian visions of reality. Instead, it is heavily aimed to create constructed fictions and subjective idealisms.
While fighting for ‘approval,’ Brad (mainly) endures several humiliations, which is very funny, not only to the audience, but also to the other characters in the movie. The main characters are outstandingly played by Will Ferrell (Brad Whitaker), Mark Wahlberg (Dusty Mayron), Linda Cardellini (Sara), Scarlett Estevez (Megan), and Owen Vaccaro (Dylan). Their acting is very mature and they express emotions effectively. Also, Ferrell and Cardellini did decent jobs of portraying caring and protective, as well as concerned, parents and spouses. Ferrell exceeds his normal comedy boundaries with the humorous stunts and funny dance
...graphically and culturally different places with one unifying theme, the Japanese fascination and often misinterpretation of the West.
Ever since Christopher Columbus vacated the director's seat, the film adaptations have been getting progressively sharper and more fascinating. The latest even features Jarvis Cocker and members of Radiohead vamping it up as the Weird Sisters at a school ball.
The main character, Ponyboy he is a greaser, part of the lowest-class kids who wear their hair long and greasy, wear blue jeans and ripped-up T-shirts. There is another group of kids called the “Socs”. They were the preppy kids, the rich ones, the goody-two-shoes.The “Greasers” and the “Socs” do not get along and have their daily brawls in the street. One day, as Ponyboy is walking home from a movie, he is jumped and beaten by a gang of Socs. At the last minute, his gang of greasers--including his brothers Darry and Sodapop, who raise Ponyboy. The next night, Ponyboy and Johnny go to a movie with Dally; they sit behind a pair of attractive Soc girls, whom Dally hits in his rude self. After Johnny tells him to stop, Johnny and Ponyboy sit with the girls, Cherry and Marcia.
non-actors that appear in the film, for various reasons. In the process of being introduced
Ever heard of Spirited Away? Well if not it’s a shame since people of all ages enjoyed it. Spirited Away is about a ten year old girl who gets lost in the spirit world and has to change her parents back into humans again. But even though people loved it no one knew about the director, the production it went through, and how successful it really was, since it wasn’t made in the U.S.A.
In America, people think of shows such as Family Guy, Spongebob, and Adventure Time if you mention cartoons. However, in Japan the equivalent of cartoons is anime. Anime which is thought of by many people to be weird and freaky. It is believed that anime is basically cartoon porn for weirdos who have nothing to do with their lives, but that’s wrong. Anime is a form of art which can be as thrilling as a Hollywood blockbuster, as romantic as any novel, and it can be filled with laughter, violence, and tears. Anime is something that someone can only accept and enjoy after they’ve tried it. It is versatile, and flexible and can morph into any genre the writer chooses, ranging from time travel, to tragic romance, to serial killers! They may seem like cartoons, but they tend to offer deeper meanings and messages you have to interpret yourself. Often times, anime can go off into dark themes that Western media won’t show or can’t show well. Anime is not a pathetic hobby for stay at home losers, and it’s not cartoon porn for internet fanatics either. Anime is an art which not only tells stories, but also shows them.
But we should start out by acknowledging its success. In considering some of the reasons for the recent success of South Korean cinema, two further observations can be made. First, if we pay attention to the international export success of South Korean cinema, we can see that it has carved out a new route. This is based on regional markets, at least as much as Europe and the United States. Second, unlike the successes of the Taiwanese and Chinese “new waves” since the 1980s, it is not based on the old European art cinema model.
My paper focuses on Kon Satoshi’s four anime movies that he directed. They are, in order of release, Perfect Blue (1997), Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), and Paprika (2006.) While I plan to analyze these movies from multiple angles, one of the main overarching topics will of course be Kon’s trademark surrealism.
There is always something special or unique about any country in the world that becomes popular because of it. Japan is very famous of the cartoon movies that describe and show the Japanese culture and much more, which is called “Anime”. But why this kind of cartoon movies is so popular among people of different countries and culture? This essay will cover the definition of the word “Anime”, the themes of Anime, the production of Anime and finally Akihabara City that is also known as “the city of anime”. As well a primary and secondary research is also included about anime.