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 Kurosawa Akira Heroes and Heroism
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Kurosawa Akira
Kurosawa’s Films Kurosawa Akira (1910-1998)SIGNIFICANT BIOGRAPHICAL FACTS (early life)His dream to be an artist; he went to art school after his secondary education.Avid reader of classic literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Shakespeare, Akutagawa
Kurosawa’s Films Entered PCL in 1936 at the age of 26 as an assistant director. He mainly worked for Yamamoto Kajiro.SIGNIFICANT FACTSWrote many scripts: throoughout his career, Kurosawa always involved in script writing for his films. Strong, clear narrative line and sharp characterization.
Kurosawa’s Films Sanshiro Sugata (1943) 姿三四郎 The Most Beautiful (1944) 一番美しく Sugata Sanshiro Part II (1945) 続姿三四郎 The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945) 虎の尾を踏む男たち No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) わが青春に悔いなしOne Beautiful Sunday (1946) 素晴らしき日曜日Drunken Angel (1948) 酔いどれ天使Stray Dog (1949) 野良犬
Kurosawa’s Films Scandal (1950) 醜聞 Rashomon (1950) 羅生門Idiot (1951) 白痴Ikiru (1952) 生きるSeven Samurai (1954) 七人の侍I Live in Fear (1955) 生きものの記録Throne of Blood (1957) 蜘蛛の巣城The Lower Depths (1957) どん底The Hidden Fortress (1958) 隠し砦の三悪人The Bad Sleeps Well (1960) 悪い奴ほどよく眠る
Kurosawa’s Films Yojinbo (1961) 用心棒Sanjuro (1962) 椿三十郎High and Low (1963) 天国と地獄Red Beard (1965) あかひげDodesukaden (1970) どですかでんDersu Uzala (1975) デルス・ウザーラKagemusha (1980) 影武者Ran (1985) 乱Dream (1990) 夢Rhapsody in August (1991) 八月の狂詩曲Madadayo (1993) まあだだよ
Creation of heroes and anti-heroes.Male characters who are strong, courageous, resilient, morally correct and often reckless. Sanshiro in Sugata Sanshiro - a traditional hero.Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune), a punk, and Dr. Sanada (Shimura Takashi), a alcoholic doctor in Drunken Angel - anti heroes
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes The minor civil servant WATANABE Kanji in Ikiru (1952) who discovers that he is terminally ill with cancer and starts desperately searching meaning for life [short remaining life]. The most unlikely person proves to be a great little hero.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes Heroic warriors in Seven Samurai - Kanbei, Katsushiro, Gorobei, Shichijiro, Kyuzo, Heihachi, and KikuchiyoCharacterizations based on the sharp observation of human types and differentiation in characters
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes SHIMADA KanbeiThough a great samurai and cool strategist, he is not fortunate in battles fighting on the losing sides. Now, masterless, but he has every quality to be a great leader and fights against 70 bandits with six samurai.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes KATAYAMA Gorobei Experienced and masterful samurai, who is a great strategist supporting Kanbei as his right-hand man, though he does not look like it. He is always calm and self-controlled.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes ShichirojiHe worked for Kanbei before he became masterless. Extremely loyal to Kanbei and knows perfectly what he wants and behave. A model of feudal man of honour and duty.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes HAYASHIDA HiehachiNot a great swordsman but has a great sense of humour cheering other samurais and villagers. He has warm sensitivity.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes KyuzoExtremely self-disciplined and ascetic master swordsman on move. He believes he can trust in nobody but himself. He shows no emotion but is not nihilist.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes OKAMOTO KatsushiroYoung, novice samurai who is from a good family and adores Kanbei. He is naïve and innocent to grow up under the tutelage of Kanbei.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes Kikuchiyo A son of peasants and war orphan. Utterly unconventional and extremely emotional person, pretending he is a samurai. Fierce and reckless fighter in battles though no skills as a swordsman
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes ‘Seven samurai is about the relationship between the samurai and the villagers. And I wanted to show each samurai as an individual.’ Kurosawa AkiraHumanitarian action to protect peasants
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes Throne of Blood retells Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Washizu Takatoki (Mifune Toshiro) murders his master following partly the prophesies given by a medium and his wife’s cajolement.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes The masterless samurai, KUWABATAKE Sanjuro who by chance walks into a town dominated by two rival groups of gangsters and two influential merchants who rely on their protection. Sanjoro devices to destroy both parties. Yojinbo A great medieval anti-hero.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes A group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical samurai (Tsubaki Sanjuro) who does not at all fit their concept of a noble warrior. Sanjuro A great medieval anti-hero.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes In Red Beard (1965) the doctor named Niide looks after the poor and wretched who can barely pays medical bills and the young doctor Yasumoto who learns under his tutelage that he can do more good for working in his clinic than becoming a court doctor.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes A Russian tribesman is an unlikely hero who guides a team of a Russian topographical expedition in an impossible journey in frontiers. Derus Uzala
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes Humanitarian concerns - the revelation of deprived and oppressive conditions and the demonstration of the wish to improve them.Humanism - all human beings are rational and can be enlightened. Thus, they have dignity and worth which are unique to themselves. The pursuit of humanitarian and humanistic ideals brings about heroism and heroic actions.Individual quest for such truth and justice is called heroism.
Kurosawa’s Auteuristic Motifs and Themes Kurosawa’s heroes - willing to do greater and nobler things - sacrifice themselves for those. Kurosawa’s anti-heroes try to be honest to their individual demands - humanist demands which are at the same time public demands.The imperfect becomes heroes by encountering a ‘tutor’ and growing up; the wretched become heroes though their potentials revealed by coincidental circumstances.
Humanism and Heroism Sugata Sanshiro is at first a brash, self-confident student of martial arts. However, he gradually masters the true spirit of Judo and attains enlightenment under a influential teacher: harming the opponent and winning a match is not the ultimate aim of Judo. Its true purpose lies in gaining total self-control and bettering oneself.
Humanism and Heroism In Ikiru, the terminally ill cancer patient, Kanji Watanabe, is determined to do what is generally considered impossible and unachievable though he does not have many days to live. He gives everything he has to get a mosquito-infected bog drained and make it into a public park. Heroism of a small manHumanism defeats bureaucracy
Humanism and Heroism In Seven Samurai the defense of the village against the bandits is an act of humanitarianism, humanism and heroism. Helping those who suffer. ‘Again we have been defeated. The winners are those farmers, but not us.’Kanbei Shimada
Humanism and Heroism Humanist theme is conveyed through the anti-hero, Kuwagatake Sanjuro. He agrees to be a bodyguard to one faction and then the other just because it amuses him. He soon decides that it is better if all die.Sanjuro helps out suffering villagers.
Humanism and Heroism Red Beard (1965)Helping others, particularly the deprived and poor, is the quintessential moral obligation of ‘civil’ society. Compassion and conscientiousness play the prominent role in Kurosawa’s films from the late 1940s throughout the 1950 and 60s.
Humanism and Heroism ‘I had something special in mind when I made this film … I wanted to make something that my audience would want to see, something so magnificent so that they would just have to see it.’ Akira KurosawaMagnificence in human compassion and conscientiousness.
Growing-up and Entertainment Relationships between younger and older menA younger man learns humanistic truths with the tutelage of an older man. Sugata Sanshirô and Yano Shôgorô in Sugata Sanshirô The young gangster, Matsuoka and his alcoholic doctor, Sanada in Drunken Angel
Growing-up and Entertainment The young detective, Murakami and the senior detective, Sato in Stray Dog.Watanabe Kanbei, the experienced warrior and the young samurai, Katsushiro, who has yet to fight in a battlefield in Seven Samurai. The compassionate doctor, Niide and the young and ambitious doctor Yasumoto in Red Beard.
Kurosawa Akira - maker of men’s films Heroic men; male relationship and comradeship; Little space for women; few female characters who are as impressive as male counterparts.
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