CTCS 200g Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kenji Mizoguchi, Osaka Elegy, Kansai Dialect
27 May 2016
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As a sound lm in this period in japan one of the early examples of a successful sound lm for this director. For its time its also remarkable that its a movie with added realism : how dedicated it was to nailing down the realism of the time and place it took place. Ex. characters speak in local dialect: osaka dialect. **cinematic realism in this lm (and at the same time in france) E. this lm mixes realism and feminism in ways that still have the capacity to surprise western and even japanese audiences. Watching clip: father gets a letter from bother who"s off at school. Sugar daddy has arrived: uninterrupted long take that follows him up to the apt. Not an edit since he"s walked in next scene in next room: logic behind affair: awake has agreed to become this man"s mistress in exchange that he helps with economic problems of ayako"s father.
