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http://dx.doi.org/10.7230/KOSCAS.2012.27.199

Real Life Emotions in Koreeda Hirokazu's Still Walking  

Min, Hwan-Ki (중앙대학교 공연영상학부)
Nam, Yeon-Kyoung (중앙대학교 첨단영상대학원 중앙대학교 영상제작학과)
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Cartoon and Animation Studies / v., no., 2012 , pp. 199-219 More about this Journal
Abstract
An innovative narrative film-making always came out of conflict and negotiation between reality and film form. A lesson we learn from their film-making is a certain reality is no more possible to be dealt with by conventional narrative. A dialectic between a real life and a representation drives a certain film-makers to make films. Kore-eda Hirokazu is internationally known as developing his own method of meshing of so-called real life and the artifice of film. As He began his career as a documentary film-maker, made several documentaries for TV and then turned to his feature film-making, documentary film-making defines the basic stance in all of his film-making. He in particular emphasized that he considered the fundamental ethical standpoint of documentary to be filming from the standpoint that one does not - or cannot - know the person one is filming. And therefore even in his fiction films he avoids subjective cinematic structures that offer easy access to the internal states of his characters. He makes his audience observe the internal states of his characters from the outside with his narrative strategy. This article will analyse two documentary films of Koreeda Hirokazu in such a way that his documentaries meshes a real life and the artifice of film and then explores such a fiction film like that changes its documentary methods into narrative strategy for the same effect on the audience.
Keywords
Koreeda Hirokazu; Still Walking; Documentary; narrative; Emotion;
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