The outcoming of the Japanese New Wave and the Brazilian New Cinemafromthelate50sthroughtheearly70s.

Author:JooAlexandreSalgadoScartezini 1.Introduction The late 50s had a big explosion on film industry all over the world. It was the acme of Classical Cinema in Hollywoodwhere melodramatic and western movies made thestudioswin tons and tons of money. Elsewhere, the Cinema was actually starting to get known by large populations,suchastheBrazilian,withtheNewCinemaandtheJapanese,withtheNewWave. In Brazil, the directors of the New Cinema movement had the slogan One camera on hand and one idea in your head was all theyneededtomakefilms.Severalmoviesweremade with that idea, but in theprocess, they developed a new wayofmakingthosemovies,andeach one got their caracteristicson film. Some asGlauberRocha,ArnaldoJabor,NelsonPereirados Santos, Carlos Diegues, made significant movies, not only significant forthesocialmovements orideastheyrepresented,butalsoforBrazilianpeopleastheyknewthemselves. Japanese people suffered a similar experience. In 1950, Akira Kurosawa launched Rashomon and got attention from the western film industry, and even anaward at the Venice Festival. Although japanese directors were getting known and the eastern productions evolving, there was still a long path to cross. Thats when the New Wave came and showed how audacious the directors in Japan could be. Filmmakers like Yasujiru Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Nagisa Oshima, HiroshiTeshigaharaandotherswerebeing abletoproducewithcreativeliberty, suchasthebrazilians,whiletheHollywoodstudioswerestillholdingbackmostoftheirdirectors. After the film industry was established in Japan, films based on Kabuki Theater were being produced, along with stories about samurais in a generalway.Onlyin1930Japangotthe spotlight in the worldseyes,whentheuptodatesocietybegantomatterinscriptsandscreens. This concern about society wasnothappening onlyinJapan,itwasworldwide.InBrazil,movies aboutmigration,intheU.S.,moviesaboutthecrashof1929. 2.MainQuestions How did Brazil and Japan changed the way they made movies? Why that happened in such similar artistic movements and how did these countries society and film industry

encouragethemakingofthesefilms? With the present film industry growing in both Japan and Brazil, we have to take these questions very seriously not only for commercial purpose, but to understand ourselves as a society. Movies are a very good way to look at our past and to look at thewayweseeourpast. Understandingour filmindustry is understanding oursociety. Thefactthattheseartmovements emergedsimultaneouslyhastobeconsideredandthatmustbeapartofthisstudy. Brazil and Japan are very particular countries with very particular costumes, but they always got along very wellininternationalrelations.Thewaybothenteredinnewerasofcinema and how they areseen by other countries is very excepcional andhowtheirmoviesweremade mayhavetheanswertowhythatis. 3.Methodology The best way to comprehend all the movies and other material and putallinto order is Discourse Analysis. With this methodology, the author will be able to makedeepinterpretations on the selected pieces for the study, pieces which will be selected among the most important worksofthesubjectinfocus. After this preselection, key worksof film and texts will be separated and will gothrough withthe discourseanalysis.Thatwaytheauthorcanmakethemostoftheinterpretationsandtry to answer the issues raised on item 2. It seems to be the most enjoyable methodology for this project, because its from the discourse extracted from the selected works,thatthesocietyand themovieindustrywillbeunderstood. 4.Justificative As placed before inthisproject,Cinemaisabout whoweareandhowweseeourselves. It has been considered the mirror of our societys. JapanandBrazilareverywellrelatedinmore aspects than we know, and thisstudy ismeantto understandoneoftheserelations.The author believes there is no better way of doing this study, other than in a japanese university. Also, japaneseculturemustbegreatlyunderstoodforthistowork. In japanese territory, it will be much easier for gathering work material, selection of movies, not only live action, but also animations, because thatcannotbe excluded on a study about cinema, Brazil and Japan. Both countries have great material on animation and that is a

greatpartoftheirfilmindustry. This study must happen for society to understand why and how our filmmakers andour film industry related the people that live in these two countries. Understanding how the New Wave of japanese cinemaemergedisessentialfortheunderstandingofhowfilmindustryinthat country is working in present date. The same goes for Brazil, and as the New Cinema and the NewWavecamealmostatthesametime,bothcanbeunderstoodasagroup. The relevence of this work for the film industryis very high. Brazil is going throughabig change initsmovies,thewaytheyaredoneand howthingsarebeingplannedare changingvery fast. In Japan, there was always a dispute among filmmakers, while some made movies only for japanese to like, others made movies from japan to hollywood, and still, several of both kindswerecopiedbythehollywoodindustry. The events placed above are happening to Japan and Brazil. The more knowledge you produce on this subject, more directions will be found, for where to take this huge art industry. Both brazilian and japanese movies are somewhat labeledbecause of their nationality, but with theknowledgeofhowthatcametobe,itwillbeeasiertocontrollit. Therefore, this studymaybeagreatwaytokeepthoughtsabouttheseventhartgrowing, as the film industry themselves. Put the spotlight on these films is a perfect way to encourage national productionsandtothinknewwaysof makingthem.Tolookatthefuture,firstwehaveto look to our past. By doing this observation over two different nations might result in something evenbetter. 5.BibliographicReference XAVIER,Ismail.CinemaBrasileiroModerno.EditoraPazeTerra.2006 SCHNEIDER, Steven Jay. 1001 movies you must see before you die. Editora Sextante. 2010. KEMP,Philip.TudoSobreCinema.EditoraSextante.2011. WikipediaArticleonJapaneseNewWave.Linkon23/05/2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_New_Wave