Thursday, April 30, 2009

Kabuki (歌舞伎)



I went to Ginza to see a Kabuki play the other day. Many people had overflowed on the outside before it started. Kabuki serves as long performance of about 5 hours. People snatch a hasty meal at the break time of 30 minutes. There are various stalls in the pavilion from the curry and rice to a high-level box lunch. For some reason, there even is a boutique. The person who was speaking happily with the clerk was seen though the person who bought clothes here did not see. The stage setting of kabuki is very interesting. It is not the luxurious making, but there are the many devices, make enjoy us!

Monday, April 27, 2009

Tokyo Sonata



Genre:Foreign, Drama
Director:Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast:Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Yu Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki, Haruka Igawa

A difficult system in recent years “Fluidity of the employment” and “Unequal society-格差社会”. People will be exhausted by adapting oneself to them now. As a result,It is a domestic happy circle that people become the place which carries out a thinking stop at such time.Even by a administration division chief with professional mediation of human relations, It becomes indifferent to the human relations of his own home.

It has surfaced in recent years as various problems for which the society side which was nestling up that he should be adapted also began the breakdown.However, a world is not still made into how to look at it.And the will wished that he does not want to be concerned is making the thinking stop live long.

"Place of family togetherness" is "Place that doesn't change", and to actually feel the happiness that it invents, all families should experience "Consciousness change". In the last scene, although the son flipped Debussy skillfully, there was a figure of the family who leaves without applauding. Family everybody's escape play (road movie) drawn immediately before was performed synchronically. It was filled by the impulse which destroys a thinking stop. As a result, the last scene induced impression.

The size of what is destroyed increased by minimum performance. Like Robert Bresson, the size of things increased seriousness by expressionless players. The serious feeling also became deep as humorous production. On the other hand, the road movie was lively motion-like. The bunch of the feeling killed till then was exploded to movement. The contrast was skillful.

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トウキョウソナタ

監督・脚本:黒沢清
出演:香川照之/小泉今日子/小柳友/井之脇海/井川遥/津田寛治/役所広司

雇用の流動化や格差社会というシステムへ順応することで既に疲弊してしまう現在では、思考停止する場所となってしまうのが、家庭の団らんであり、人間関係の調停がプロフェッショナルの人事課長ですら、家庭の人間関係は棚上げとなる。

順応すべく寄り添っていた社会の側も破綻をはじめた近年、様々な問題としてそれは浮上しているが、依然として世の中はそれを見ようとはぜす、自分だけは関わりたくないと望む意志が思考停止を延命させている。

家庭の団らん、その「変わらなさ」を享受する喜びを実感するには、とことん変化を体験することであり、ラストに息子が余りにも上手いドビュッシーを弾きながらも、拍手一つぜず立ち去る家族が感動的なのは、直前まで描かれた家族それぞれのロードムービーが共時的に行われ、思考停止を破壊する衝動に満ちていたからではないか。

破壊されるものの大きさは、ミニマムな演技によって増大された。ロベール・ブレッソンのように、無表情な役者たちによって事の大きさは深刻さを増し、滑稽な演出ほどシリアス感も深まった。一方でロードムービーは躍動的で、それまで殺していた感情の束を運動へ爆発させたそのコントラストが鮮やかだった。

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今回もまた「どこで見つけたのだろう」的な線路沿いの家は、とても黒沢映画的な絵をつくっていて、アンジャッシュの児嶋一哉ですら、黒沢演出の中では「不可解な恐怖」の一部となっていた。

My edited video @youtube.