ASSIGNMENT HELP | What aesthetics of Japanese culture do you notice in the movie?

Ugetsu
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Prompt: What aesthetics of Japanese culture do you notice in the movie? What is one way these aesthetics relate to the portrayal of gender roles in the film?

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The film, Ugetsu (1953), is about a tale of ambition, love, family, and war. It is set amid the 16th century Japanese Civil Wars. The film combines otherworldly fantasy and social realism as it advances a sweeping take of spectral apparitions and earthly | GET AN EXPERT FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT | instances where Japanese aesthetics is evident. Ugetsu introduces the Japanese cinema to the rest of the world, and it is here that the Japanese aesthetics is more pronounced. For instance, as a ponderous antiwar effort, the film is informed by traditional artworks and artforms namely Noh theater, scroll painting, Biwa music, and ghost stories.

In one of the scenes, the Nagahama Market has some Japanese aesthetics such as Geido (discipline system) and is shown by the businesses embodying discipline | GET AN EXPERT FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT |masks spread out in the market demonstrating the Wabi-sabi aesthetic shown by different colors and shapes (Film Gorillas min. 34). Other Japanese aesthetics evident in the movie include illusions and cinematic cuts shown by Ozu Yasujiro invoking impermanence manifestations, Yugen – Japanese landscape | GET AN EXPERT FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT | ways in which these aesthetics relate to the portrayal of gender roles in the film, Ugetsu. One of the ways is the demonstration of Miyabi’s surrounding and the female gender in the form of elegance, courtliness, and r…