2024年 08月 22日
FUKASAKU
In the documentary "Paradise Rediscovered: The Truth of Limitless Paradise" directed by Aaron Dylan Kearns, it is said that Harada was influenced by Kinji Fukasaku.
What kind of film director is Fukasaku?
The end of the war came when Fukasaku was in junior high school.
Witnessing the great decline of Japan and the depravity of humanity after the war, Fukasaku hated war, society, and power.
He always portrayed people struggling and groaning in the shadows and at the bottom of society.
He made films while attending demonstrations against the Security Treaty.
Inspired by footage of demonstrations on the news at the time, he introduced handheld camera shooting to his films.
"Battles Without Honor and Humanity" is just one of Fukasaku's vast filmography.
His films almost always depict demonstrations.
Toei, the film company he worked for, produced films regardless of whether they were left-wing or right-wing.
Left-wing film directors were there, such as Tadashi Imai, a member of the Japanese Communist Party who was red-purged.
Masahiro Makino and Tomu Uchida, who had been making films since before the war, were also there.
The group was made up of young directors from the New Left and anarchists.
(Incidentally, Masahiro Makino always made films with ordinary people as protagonists, including some that featured beggars.)
Fukasaku was also influenced by senior film directors from the 1960s and 1970s, both in Japan and abroad (such as Akira Kurosawa and Andrzej Wajda).
Fukasaku always portrayed the poor and marginalized from society.
At the root of this was anger and resentment toward the state and authority.
Harada learned from many senior film directors who experienced the war in the 1960s and 1970s.
Harada learned that it was okay to express one's past stains, anger, and resentment in film.
Do you think someone who has suffered severe discrimination and violence, especially in their childhood, can make a well-behaved, goody-goody film?
What kind of film director is Fukasaku?
The end of the war came when Fukasaku was in junior high school.
Witnessing the great decline of Japan and the depravity of humanity after the war, Fukasaku hated war, society, and power.
He always portrayed people struggling and groaning in the shadows and at the bottom of society.
He made films while attending demonstrations against the Security Treaty.
Inspired by footage of demonstrations on the news at the time, he introduced handheld camera shooting to his films.
"Battles Without Honor and Humanity" is just one of Fukasaku's vast filmography.
His films almost always depict demonstrations.
Toei, the film company he worked for, produced films regardless of whether they were left-wing or right-wing.
Left-wing film directors were there, such as Tadashi Imai, a member of the Japanese Communist Party who was red-purged.
Masahiro Makino and Tomu Uchida, who had been making films since before the war, were also there.
The group was made up of young directors from the New Left and anarchists.
(Incidentally, Masahiro Makino always made films with ordinary people as protagonists, including some that featured beggars.)
Fukasaku was also influenced by senior film directors from the 1960s and 1970s, both in Japan and abroad (such as Akira Kurosawa and Andrzej Wajda).
Fukasaku always portrayed the poor and marginalized from society.
At the root of this was anger and resentment toward the state and authority.
That anger led him to depict extreme violence.
Harada learned that it was okay to express one's past stains, anger, and resentment in film.
Do you think someone who has suffered severe discrimination and violence, especially in their childhood, can make a well-behaved, goody-goody film?
That resentment would surely become a depiction of extreme violence.
From the film directed by Kinji Fukasaku (Credit: Toei, The bottom eight photos are from Shochiku.)
Fukasaku was on the list of people who recommended the complete works of Eisenstein, along with Akira Kurosawa, the left-wingers Satsuo Yamamoto and Tadashi Imai, the New Leftist Nagisa Oshima, and Shuji Terayama.
Kinji Fukasaku's phantom work "Actual Records of the Japanese Communist Party"
by kiyubaru2020
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