Shakespeare On Akira Kurosawa's Films

This article is to explore some related issues on Shakespeare's plays in the Japanese films master Akira Kurosawa's films, as a timeless classic reproduction.Since sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Shakespeare's plays in the history of the gradual establishment of the monument to its undisputed status as a literary classic pillar hall. This article will first of all, from Shakespeare's plays that can be referred to the corresponding means in the history of the connotation of how to start up gradually rich, simple introduction to the history of Shakespeare's plays in the experience of what the definition and extension, rich in connotation and expand to form Today we face the term "Shakespeare".After that, further discussion would be on the development of arts in such a form of film, initially as a signified how Shakespeare's plays had been interpreted in the material world by many artists, especially one of the outstanding representatives of those film directors——Akira Kurosawa.Akira Kurosawa and Shakespeare as different era artists geographical differences, what factors determined his director's adaptation of Shakespeare's plays stand out and become a recognized film adaptation of the outstanding representatives of Shakespeare? And more details would be discussed on "Throne of Blood" from Macbeth and "Ran" from King Lear, in order to derive the new means of artistic expression, only when Shakespeare's plays not only as a constant signified to be described and expression, and both can refer to as an active signifiant in the material world of film, we can see to a true spirit of Shakespearean film as works of art.Also drawn from the above discussion about the arts as movie, made at the end of this article discussed some of the extension. Our era has irrefutably into a era of mechanical reproduction, the film is no longer as an adjunct to the art, but is bound to be the spokesman for the identity of art stands. In this one, which features of film have changed the signifiant of "Art", where can we find the "Aurora"? This is brought about in this essay a new problem, or can be discussed as a new starting point for future research.