"Hana" is a Japanese film released in 1997. It was filmed by Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano, who also wrote, directed, edited and starred. The film explores life and death in a unique way by depicting the process of a hard-line criminal policeman becoming extremely desperate under a series of blows, depicting the pain and beauty of life, the ease and difficulty of death, and the interaction between life and death. The problem. "Fireworks" won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1997. The film established Takeshi Kitano's status in the Japanese film industry.
Summary of the story: Detective Asi still has the shadow of the unfortunate death of his son a few years ago in his heart, and his wife has advanced leukemia. Just as he was talking to the doctor in the hospital, who advised him to take his wife home, he got word that Horibe, his friend and colleague on the team, had been seriously injured by a repeat offender they had been tracking for a long time. Horibe's injury was not caused by Nishi, but because the situation was extremely dangerous at the time, and they were already difficult to deal with. Horibe is now confined to a wheelchair. West is disturbed by loan sharks who force him to pay his debts. Xi also wanted to comfort his wife who had just returned home, and wanted to support the widow in Tianzhong. Young police detective Tanaka dies in an ambush. Nishi always believed that Tanaka's death was responsible for him. He also tried to get close to Horibe. Horibe was abandoned by his wife and daughter after being injured and lived alone by the sea. All this made Xi feel exhausted. West decides to leave the police station and accompany his wife on a final trip in an attempt to wrap things up. He bought it from an old car dealer—a stolen cab, converted it into a police car, put on a police uniform, and went to rob a bank. After he succeeded, he paid off his debts to the loan sharks, gave part of the money to Tanaka's widow, and mailed a package of paints, brushes, canvases, and an artist's pen to Horibe. Horibe wanted to paint for a long time, but had no money to buy these utensils. After all this was completed, under the stalking of gangsters and police friends, he and his wife first went to Snow Country and then to the beach. In the sound of the waves, they chose the way of ending their life by themselves and embarked on a journey with no return... ...
2. Production background
This film is made by "Madman" Takeshi Kitano who is also the screenwriter, director, editor, and starring. Therefore, I have to talk about some of Takeshi Kitano's deeds here, because these things have no effect on the production of this film. have influence.
Takeshi Kitano was born on January 18, 1947 in Tokyo. He was admitted to the Faculty of Engineering of Meiji University, but dropped out due to his incompatibility. To make a living, he worked chores and drove a taxi. Kitano Takeshi is a very talented person. Now he can be a professional comedian, a famous director, a TV presenter, or a movie actor. As a director, he can not only produce "Beware of Demons", which surprised the violent aesthetic director John Woo, but also "The Meaning of Kikujiro", which is full of passion. The role of Kitano Takeshi in contemporary Japanese films is diverse, and his films cannot be classified, including action films, gangster films, youth films, period dramas, warm films, funny comedies, etc. The new film in 2007 is even more It is necessary to combine many types of movies to make a show together.
All in all, Takeshi Kitano is extremely talented, dares to break through, and strives to expand the world of his directing art, so he can freely use different types and styles of films, and has won a broad space for development.
The film "Fireworks" is his representative work, and also a masterpiece of his various identities. It is also a work that coexists with violence and warmth.
In 1995, when he traveled in Australia, he was involved in a car accident and was seriously injured. Half of his face was paralyzed since then, so he could not make films for two years in 1995 and 1996. Until 1997, based on his experience in recuperation, he made this film called "Fireworks", which made moviegoers think about the relationship between death and survival. The mix of violence and warmth makes the film's performance very tense and impressive.
3. Shot language
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Shot number Picture Shooting method Sound effect
1
Panorama
2 Close -up
3 Half-length scene The sound of turning on the gun safety
4 Close -up
5 Panorama
6 Half-length
7 Close -up
8 Half-length
9 Close -up
10 Panorama
11 Overhead shot, swipe, roar of police cars, Mercedes Benz on the street
12 Long
shot 13 Medium shot
14 Panorama
15 Panorama “bang” followed by the sound of cars running
16 Close -up
17 Large close-up
18 Close
-up 19 Close-up
20 Half-length scene, the sound of cars driving21, long-range view,
plucked music22,
panoramic view, music continues23
bust-length, melodious and lively music, trumpet loud and bright24
close -up view, music continues25, close -up view,
rare laughter26
Music
27 Music
28 Music
In the part of the bank robbery, Takeshi Kitano used a humorous and relaxed way to show a major and thrilling incident, explaining the whole process of Assi's bank robbery in the form of literary drama. A shot of the gun, without saying a word, this process is very chic and neat. It is worth noting that shot 1, shot 5 and shot 10 are all recorded by means of news, and the characters and scenes are mostly displayed through the pictures in the bank surveillance system. In that small contrasting technique, the police car driven by Asi and the real police car oncoming pass by. Asi's meticulous planning is in stark contrast to the "stupid policeman" of the roadside people. It goes without saying that it is simple and simple. Extremely.
In the scenes that later showed the deep feelings of Asi and his wife, Kitano Takeshi's concise use of the camera is also obvious. Through just a few shots, the environment they were in, the games they were playing, and the expressions and mentality of each other were all revealed one by one. Asi's tenderness to his wife made a just footnote for Asi's "reverse action". Deep love, beautiful paintings and poetic scenery complement each other here.
Here is a summary of Takeshi Kitano's lens features:
1. The lens language is concise. Takeshi Kitano likes to tell stories with the power of camera images, and he likes to use still shots to show them. Take "That Summer, Tranquil Sea" as an example, in which Takeshi Kitano used many still shots of nearly 15 seconds to describe what happened. In this film "Hana", even when he showed violent behavior, Kitano Takeshi omits the process. For example, in the film, he used a wooden chopstick to poke into Kishima's left eye and kicked Mori's mouth to vomit blood. The picture is clean and neat, but the feeling of blood and horror is not reduced. Kitano Takeshi's conciseness of camera language can be said to have reached the extreme.
2. The composition of the picture color. Takeshi Kitano prefers Impressionist-style color pictures, and "That Summer, The Sea of Tranquility" is also well presented. In "Fireworks", Kitano Takeshi's control of the color of the picture can be said to be very important. The fireworks flying in the sky, or the boundless sea, or the paintings inserted into the lens, under his guidance, make people linger, and complement the warm theme of the film, as well as the violence in the film. The scene is in stark contrast.
Last but not least, the music of the film. The music supervisor of the film is Joe Hisaishi, who has become a golden partner with Takeshi Kitano by the outside world. Hisaishi's sad and quiet music is one of the important languages of the film, which perfectly fits with Kitano's camera language, making the film more warm and moving.
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