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Master class with Oscar awarded Japanese film director Yojiro Takita

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
300MYT Z 1 1/D English summer
Subject guarantor:
Pavel JECH
Name of lecturer(s):
Pavel JECH
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Introduction to the work of Yojiro Takity

Mode of study:

seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

none

Course contents:

Two films illustrating the development of the director´s style will be screened („No More Comics!“, 1986 and Oscar winning „Departures“, 2008 - both from 35mm prints), each screening will be followed by a discussion with the director

Recommended or required reading:

none

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Module instruction - screening and subsequent discussion

Assessment methods and criteria:

To participate in the discussion

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Y?jir? TAKITA (*1955, Takaoka, Toyama Pref.), popular Japanese film director, member of the Japanese Film Academy, holder of several Japanese orders.

Today Takita is best known for his melodramas penetrated with deep humanism and light irony as well as for large scale historical spectacles but originally he was an appreciated master of the low budget light erotic genre called pinku eiga (Pink Films) which was very typical for Japan in 70tees an 80tees.

Takita entered the film industry through Mukai Productions, where he served as an assistant director. He first came to prominence with the long-running, popular light-erotic parody series Molester's Train (Chikan densha), which he began to direct in 1982 at Shint?h?. Takita's 1986 first ?standard? film was a satiric picture No More Comic Magazines, reflecting the inner pressures of the media world. It received critical praise and became first of his films to be shown with success abroad.

In 2001, he switched his interest to history and fantasy and directed the Ying Yang Master (Onmyoji), a film which won Japanese Academy Award in 10 categories and became an international hit, receiving a special prize at The Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in 2002. His next film When the Last Sword Is Drawn (Mibu gishi den) was awarded the Best film of the year in Japan and was highly prised by both audience and critics. But from the international perspective, it was his 2008 film Departures (Okuribio) which became the most important mile stone. Reflecting the typical Japanese aesthetics of death as a natural part of life, it was the first Japanese film ever to won the Best Foreign Language Film at the U.S. 81st Academy Awards, in an upset over the Israeli animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir. Takita?s most recent picture, The Samurai Astronomer (Tenchi meisatsu, 2012), which will be shown among others as a part of his retrospective, is again on a historical theme.

Director Takita will come to the CR as a main guest of the Japanese film and culture festival EIGA-SAI 2015 in Pilsen and Prague, being invited by the Pilsen ? European Capital of Culture and the Czech-Japanese Association.

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
13.03.2015 09:00–16:00 JECH P. Projekce FAMU
Lažanský palác 		přednášková par. 1
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