Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Edited book | Rethinking Nature in Post-Fukushima Japan
Chapter | Masumura Yasuzō

Masumura Yasuzō

A Breakthrough in the Wall of Japanese Cinema

Abstract

A few fundamental events contributed to create a revolution in the world of Japanese cinema during the 1950s, drastically cutting its links with the past and stimulating a completely different way to make movies. One of the main authors to stress the need for a complete change was MasumuraYasuzo. He had been studying for two years (1952-54) in Rome, an experience which enabled him to introduce a new kind of approach to human beings into Japan. Masumura’s refusal for the classical atmosphere of Japanese cinema, often referring to nature as a metaphor of the existence, together with what he had learnt in Italy, gave birth to some of his masterpieces, where the fictional universe works as a frame for depicting a dialectic mixing of freedom and individuality.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Nov. 12, 2016 | Accepted: March 28, 2017 | Published Nov. 7, 2018 | Language: en

Keywords Japanese CinemaJapanese New WaveNature1960sMasumura YasuzōFilm production


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