Since its birth, in just one hundred years, film has become the eighth art in addition to the seven major art categories of literature, music, dance, drama, painting, architecture and sculpture. This is inseparable from many directors and their films, and good film directors must also become a good artist (of course, people like Guo Jingming don't count, huh).
In this hundred years, there have been countless well-known directors and their representative works around the world, and the editor has roughly listed some influential and highly artistic performances. List the director's brief reviews, masterpieces, and major achievements as a small file. Due to the large number of people, the author released it in installments, trying to rank by country or region, with ten places in each issue. I think most of the fans know the first few directors of each issue, but although the last three are famous directors in film history, they can be regarded as senior film fans.
Some of the information and comments come from the teaching plan of Teacher Fang Yingyuan on Time Network, thank you here!
Miyazaki Hayao, Japan, January 5, 1941----
Comments: Although the themes of each of Miyazaki's works are different, they integrate the reflective messages of dreams, environmental protection, life, survival, pacifism, and the feminist movement. His dedication not only resonates with people around the world, but also receives attention from all over the world, and even Disney, the American animation kingdom, has to introduce Miyazaki's animation film distribution rights (except in Asia). Jun Miyazaki has an irreplaceable position in the global animation industry, and Disney calls him "Akira Kurosawa of the animation world".
Masterpieces: "Princess Mononoke", "Spirited Away", "Castle in the Sky", "Valley of the Wind", "Totoro"
Achievements: His cartoons are an important eastern force that can share the world with Disney and DreamWorks. He was the first thinker to elevate animation to the level of humanity.
9: Shunji Iwai, Japan, January 24, 1963----
Comments: Shunji Iwai is not a prolific director, but his works can last a long time, and his extraordinary directing talent cannot be ignored.
Shunji Iwai is known as the standard-bearer of Japan's new film movement, known as Japan's potential new "image writer", and some Chinese fans call him "Japan's Wong Kar-wai".
Representative works: "Swallowtail Butterfly", "Love Letter", "April Story"
Achievements: Two awards at the Berlin Film Festival.
Kitano Takeshi, Japan, January 18, 1947----
Comments: Whenever his new work comes out, critics will be excited and chewy to publish a coffin-like summary, as if Kitano has reached the peak of his creation. But Kitano always unexpectedly adopts a new system in his next work, moving into new areas of the unknown. This seems to prove that among all the Japanese film writers today, Takeshi Kitano has the most self-denial spirit and has a calm and self-conscious nature. He never dutifully clung to the established type. After completing the construction of a work, he always abandons it without hesitation, and his eyes are set on new works. Perhaps no other Japanese film can be made with complete freedom and freedom of feeling like Takeshi Kitano's films. The old Japanese film industry's practice of sticking to the traditional way of playing, inheriting, turning, and knotting has nothing to do with Takeshi Kitano's films. Similarly, the traditional basic directing techniques, photography, and editing methods that the old Japanese film industry had clinged to had nothing to do with Takeshi Kitano's films. Takeshi Kitano's films do not have the contrived, rigid posture of discerning who is right and who is wrong.
Masterpieces: "Hanabi", "Sonata", "Kikujiro's Summer", "Bad Boy Sky"
Achievements: Venice Film Festival 10 nominations, 5 awards. 1 cannes film festival nomination. He has been nominated for 13 times and won 3 times for the Japan Academy Awards. The Japan Blue Ribbon Film Awards has been nominated for 5 times and won 5 times. As a film director, Takeshi Kitano has received high praise worldwide. In 2007, the Venice Film Festival will present Takeshi Kitano with the "Long Live Director Award" (kitano takeshi film name), and he is the first recipient of the award.
7, Otomo Katsuhiro, Japan, 14 April 1954----
Comments: Katsuyo Otomo is a representative of Japanese animation and a pioneer of Japanese animation to the world, a manga artist. Katsuyo Otomo debuted in 1973 as "Gunfire" (manga Action). Subsequently, he concentrated on publishing several short works in the same magazine. Since his debut, the meticulous depiction of his works and the ingenious development of the story have been highly praised.
Masterpieces: "Akira", "Steam Boy", "Metropolis",
Achievements: In 1983, he won the 4th Japan SF Award for "Children's Dream", in 1984 he won the 8th Kodansha Manga Award for "Akira", in 1991 he won the Yokohama Film Festival Censor Special Award, and in 1996 he won the 50th Mainichi Film Festival CONCOURS Noburo Fujinoburo Award for "Memories Trilogy". If Miyazaki was the pioneer who made Japanese animation go global, Katsuyo Otomo was his successor.
Nagisa Oshima, Japan, March 21, 1932---- January 15, 2013
Comments: This is a samurai without a monarch, a ronin of the movie world, who carved the artistic life of "chrysanthemums and swords" with his own Bushido spirit. As the standard-bearer of Japanese New Wave cinema, Nagisa Oshima has the meaning of the "destiny" of traditional films.
Nagisa Oshima is known as a new generation of Japanese directors after Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa and an important representative of world New Wave cinema. In the mid-1970s, Kingdom of the Senses was one of the most avant-garde films in the world film scene, one of Oshima's most shocking films, which was banned in Japan that year and, for a long time, often as an internal reference film for professionals and art schools in the world.
Masterpiece: Merry Christmas! Mr. Lawrence", "World of The Senses", "Kyoto, Mother City", "Imperial Law"
Achievements: Cannes has been nominated for 1 award in 5 times, and the Japan Film Institute has been nominated for 2 awards in 9 times
Akira Kurosawa, Japan, March 23, 1910 ---- September 6, 1998
Comments: Akira Kurosawa was hailed by Asia Weekly in December 1999 as one of the most cultural and artistic figures of the 20th century who contributed to The Progress of Asia. Time times magazine featured the most influential figures in Asia of the 20th century, represented by Akira Kurosawa, Tagore and fashion guru Issey Miyake.
Representative works: "Seven Samurai", "Rashomon", "Chaos", "Spider's Nest City", "Shadow Warrior", "Heart to Hold"
Achievements: Directed 31 films in his lifetime, won 2 Academy Awards for Best Language Films; won 5 awards at the Venice Film Festival; 3 times at the Berlin Film Festival; in 1982, the Venice Film Festival presented him with a lifetime achievement award; in 1990, the 80-year-old Akira Kurosawa received a lifetime achievement award at the Academy Awards.
Masaki Kobayashi, Japan, 14 February 1916---- October 4, 1996
Comments: Masaki Kobayashi's films are mostly set in Japanese samurai, and he faces the tragic life and suffering of samurai, which has considerable practical significance.
Representative works: "Cutting the Belly", "Strange Talk", "Death Sword", "Conditions on Earth"
Achievements: Directed a total of 22 films, received 7 nominations and 4 awards at three major art film festivals.
Kinji Fukasaku, Japan, 3 July 1930---- 12 January 2003
Comments: Japanese violent film grandmaster Fukasaku Shinji, there are few failed works in his life, as a "national director", most of his works have sold well and have a good reputation. His gang films and period dramas have influenced many people. Fukasaku not only has the talent to shoot B-grade films, but he is also at ease with large-scale science fiction films like "Resurrection Day". The magnificent mythological era dramas "Rebirth of the Demon World" and "The Legend of the Eight Dogs of Satomi" not only embody poetic history and legends, but also have super-first-class narratives. Fukasaku's ability to macro-control the film's narrative is by no means under Akira Kurosawa.
Representative works: "Battle Royale", "Kamata March", "Human Witness", "Ako Castle Broken"
Achievements: Shinji Fukasaku did not sweep overseas film festivals with his contemporaries Masahira Imamura and Nagisa Oshima, nor did he frequently participate in the "Ten Best Of The Ten Shunbun" like Yoji Yamada, but he was the most important "national director" in Japan. He made 61 films in 42 years, almost all of which were commercial films, and he did not fail.
Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, March 16, 1898 ---- August 25, 1956
Comments: Kenji Mizoguchi, a classicist in Japanese cinema, whose films harshly attack men and society at the expense of women, treats actors and crew like evil ghosts, and comes out of the studio with a smile on his face and is kind. He was a man full of contradictions and flaws, and he had as many bad works as his masterpieces. Nagisa Oshima commented on Ozu and Mizoguchi as follows: "Ozu only works within the scope of what he likes to do, knows what he likes, so he is happy; but Mizoguchi does not know what he wants to do all his life, and blindly works hard, so he has lived a very hard life." Half a century after his death, we found that the only contemporary director who could match Yasujiro Ozu in Japanese cinema was Kenji Mizoguchi.
Representative works: "Nishitsuru Generation Girl", "Rain Moon Story", "Residual Chrysanthemum Story", "Kinmatsu Story"
Achievements: Shot a total of 90 films in his lifetime. In recognition of his contributions to the Japanese film industry, the Japanese government awarded him the Purple Ribbon Medal, and after his death, he was posthumously awarded the Fourth Class Ruibao Medal. From 1952 to 1954, he was the biggest winner of three consecutive Venice Film Festivals.
Yasujiro Otsu, Japan, December 12, 1903-December 12, 1963
One sentence comment: Ozu's films, the story is usually a short trivial matter in the parents, and the seemingly innocent, plain, and passionless lives in his works hide countless life conditions worth pondering.
Representative works: "Tokyo Story", "The Taste of Saury", "Late Spring", "Floating Grass", "Autumn Harmony"
Achievements: Directed a total of 54 films (only 36 survive in the world), including 31 silent films, 22 sound films, and 1 documentary. There are 19 films shortlisted for Japan's most influential film selection awards, "Film Shunbun" annual top ten films, and six times won the top ten best films of the year. Ozu's award rate is also far ahead among many famous directors in Japan. Ozu enjoys a wide international reputation in the history of Japanese cinema.