The Influence of Tradition in Japanese Cinema

Title: The Influence of Tradition in Japanese Cinema
Category: Literature / English
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The Influence of Tradition in Japanese Cinema

Japanese culture has arisen as a mixture of the East and the West. Japanese have been able to keep their traditional aesthetic features while they also embraced western style, which was filtered through Japanese tradition. The presence of the Benshi ( a commentator who narrated the action of the film) could be a suitable example of the situation. The beliefs of Japanese people are East originated. Shintoism and Buddhism give lots of importance to the spirits …showed first 75 words of 2754 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2754 total…can use very well. Next to the human being, and the nature, they are the third beings that have a place in life. Japanese have already had the real “encounter with the third kind”. I believe that the idea behind the style in the representation of the supernatural, relies on the Zen Buddhism which shapes the perceptions of the Japanese people while influencing the aestetic features of the Japanese art including a western style: cinema.

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