Odpowiedni dać rzeczy obraz. Rozważania o filmach Ichikawy Kona

• Authors: Kowalczyk Beata

Title variants

EN

EXPRESSING A THING THROUGH AN APPROPRAITE IMAGE. REFLECTIONS ON ICHIKAWA'S KON FILMS

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Ichikawa Kon (1915-2008), one of the most important and prolific Japanese directors, made almost eighty films during the seventy years of his career. His accomplishment is considered to be particularly difficult to judge due to its astounding variety of genres, themes, styles and tone - simultaneously sardonic, pathetic, cruel, sentimental, tragic and comic. However, regardless of the story that Ichikawa was depicting through all the images he created - starting from animations, through literary adaptations, postwar humanist movies and sentimental comedies, experimental films to documentaries – he never stopped thinking in terms of contemporary society and the problems it faces. Tracing the vicissitudes of Japanese postwar social history on the screen becomes an unforgettable adventure. This essay tries to investigate Ichikawa's oeuvre in the overall perspective by presenting some of his most widely acknowledged and recognised films as well as by introducing to the broad range of problems they invite.

Keywords

EN

FILM; FILM ADAPTATION; FILM CHARACTER; FILM POETICS; KON ICHIKAWA

Discipline

• MEDIA_&_COMMUNICATION: MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Orientalistyczne
• Journal: Przegląd Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 1-2 (236-237)
• Pages: 64-76
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kowalczyk Beata

• Beata Kowalczyk, Uniwersytet Tokijski, Tokio, Japan

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA098116