Japanese new wave

The Japanese new wave (or nuberu bagu , or Shochiku nuberu bagu ) indicate a contemporary Japanese cinematographic current of the French New wave.

History and etymology

The term nuberu bagu (ヌーヴェル・ヴァーグ) is the transcription in Latin alphabet French expression New wave after adaptation to the Japanese spelling-book. Following the example French movement, the Japanese new wave extends from the end years 1950 in the middle of the years 1960. But with the difference in its French counterpart, the nuberu bagu does not federate not authors around a theory of the cinema or a review; these realizers in common have an analytical reading, sometimes critical, conventions social, a certain catch of distance with regard to mythologies cinematographic established (for example while being unaware of or by moderating the superb one of the heroes as magnifiée in the Chambara eiga or the Yakuza eiga ) and generally endeavor to emphasize exogenic problems, social ( a contrario of the films intimists of Kenji Mizoguchi, of the dramas family of Ozu or the internal tensions of the Giri-ninjo ).

Both Japanese new waves

Western meaning of the term nuberu bagu (or the use of the expression “new wave Japanese”) corresponds more or less so that the Japanese call Shochiku nuberu bagu , the new wave of the studios Shochiku (these studios had a big role in the production of films from this kind), which they distinguish for example from the Rikkyo nuberu bagu , current of more recent cinema gathering authors such as Kiyoshi Kurosawa or Shinji Aoyama in a strong theoretical unit (in private individual under the influence of the ex-professor of the University Rikkyo Shigehiko Hasumi) but a less stylistic unit.

Principal realizers

In a strict sense, principal representatives of the kind Shochiku nuberu bagu are Nagisa Oshima, Masahiro Shinoda and Yoshishige Yoshida. By extension, have regard to their stylistic proximity, works carried out at this same time by Yasuzo Masumura, Seijun Suzuki and Shohei Imamura are often regarded in Occident as reflecting the esthetics of the news vague Japanese woman. Night and fog of Japan of Oshima, Ansatsu of Shinoda and the woman of sands of Hiroshi Teshigahara are generally regarded in Europe as key films of the current nuberu bagu .

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