The Grassroot Spirit In Yhmada Yoji's Movie

Yhamada Yoji,who has have works since 1960s,is called "always green tree" in Japan film forum. The marvelous amount of his works and the praise won by the audience can be seen as the miracles. IN 1980s Yhamada Yoji was known to Chinese by the film Yellow Handkerchief. From 1960s to 1990s he had directed the 48 films Otoko wa tsurai yo, which was called the longest film in genis.After 2000, he transferred into making summary films Tasogare Seibei,Kakushiken oni no tsume, Bushi no ichibun, all win rewards in the international Movie Festival. In 2007 he shot the film Mother. The 75-years-old direct, who has been keeping the grassroot style nearly 40 years, is walking on his own way.The permanate attraction of his movies comes from the grassroot spirit. Whatever the elements or the angel, Yamada Yoji always see the grassroot as the core. Because of the grassroot angel, Yamada Yoji can shot the happiness and the sadness of the common people; can show the deep sense of the common life, to intellect his praise to the light of the human beings. In the summary films, the change the summary's figure coming from the Akira Kurosawa's film, who was strong and cool. He painted the bottom summary's life and emotion elaborately; show the real life and the human beings characters of the summary.The factors to make up the grassroot style come from many aspects. The Inside factors are the experience of his own, the simple aim to the life and the experience of the movie making, which are make him be good at showing the life of the common people. These characters can be seen in all aspects in his films, such as the structure of the story, the details, the moving of the lense, the dialogue and the behavior, etc. The outside factor include too sides, on one hand, the big environment of the culture figure of the Japan society needs the grassroot films, on the other hand, the movie industry especially the strategic of Shochiku Motion Picture Co. push Yamada Yoji's grassroot style direction.Not only in Japan, but also in the world, the film made by Yhamada Yoji has made a great influence. The grassroot spirit give the consoles to the people, it shows the new figure of Japan, it makes the films to be a brand. To research the works of Yamada Yoji, reveal the reason of the attraction, I hope it can provide some suggestions to the Chinese film industry.