Chanbara: a atmosfera nos filmes de Samurai do Século XXI

Abstract

Chanbara, the Japanese film genre popularly known in the West as samurai cinema, has as one of its main characteristics the cinematographic atmosphere, a recurring concern of Japanese cinema. This work seeks to deepen the studies on the subject in Japanese cinema of the 21st century through Historical research and film analysis. The first focus of the research is to understand the characteristics that make the cinema produced in Japan unique and what are the peculiarities of the samurai, an important character for the Japanese identity and fundamental in Chanbara cinema. After the historical part, the research turned its attention to the elements of the cinematographic atmosphere and its importance for genre cinema. Then, an analysis was made of the creation of the cinematic atmosphere of the films 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, 2010) and The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada, 2002), works of the 21st century that deserved their prominence in Japanese cinema and the Chanbara genre.