Book Overview
Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sansh Day (1954) retells a classic Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into exile by his political enemies. In his absence, his children... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0851708153
ISBN13:9780851708157
Release Date:March 2000
Publisher:British Film Institute
Length:79 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.3" x 7.5"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
A short introduction to Kenji Mizoguchi's cinematic masterpiece Sansho Dayu, one of the very greatest films ever made. Contains two essays offering two different perspectives and evaluations. Carole Cavanaugh compares and contrasts the film with its literary sources and lauds Mizoguchi's version as a profoundly beautiful vision of indissoluble family ties and a trenchant critique of the Confucian militarism implicit in some earlier versions of the story. Dudley Andrew examines the socio-political aspects of the film's creation & international reception and criticizes what he perceives as Mizoguchi's bleak existentialist vision, quietism, and "inhuman humanism". Each essay contains much useful information and many interesting insights. The prose is clear but a bit stiff and academic.
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