What Is Japanese Cinema? by Yomota Inuhiko

Author:Yomota Inuhiko
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PER004030, Performing Arts/Film/History & Criticism, HIS021000, History/Asia/Japan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

Mothra (dir. Honda Ishirō, 1961).

At Shin Tōhō, which began as a subsidiary and then became independent of Tōhō to forge its own management policy, there was an atmosphere that indulged all kinds of absurd movies. Ichikawa Kon (1915–2008), with Pu-san (1953), drew attention for his freshly humorous sensibility. He later shot the Izumi Kyōka classic Nihonbashi (1956) at Daiei, making bold use of gaudy colors at the center of the frame against a black background, casting a distancing effect on viewers accustomed to shinpa. At the same time, Nakagawa Nobuo (1905–1984), a veteran who had shot Enoken comedies during the prewar period, filled the screen with a sense of the grotesque rooted in Japanese views of life and death with his version of a Kabuki ghost story in The Ghosts of Yotsuya (Tōkaido Yotsuya kaidan, 1959) and The Afterworld (Jigoku, 1960). He displayed a penchant for peering into the abyss of evil in Japanese people.

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