Nakashima’s Unique Expression Loaded By His Gorgeous Images

Tetsuya Nakashima is an alternative creator in the Japanese Neo-cinema Movement. Because of his special personal style and outstanding work, he was known as the "visual" director. The thesis studies on Nakashima’s unique expression system, which is loaded by his gorgeous images, for the purpose. The breakthrough point is to explain the meaning of "Nakashima’s expression". We would like to make a detailed analysis on his unique film language and the profound meaning from various aspects including movie theme, narrative dialogue, color, music, modeling and so on, along with aesthetic style. In this way, we attempt to find the connection between "Nakashima’s expression "and the success of Nakashima.The thesis will expand the discussion from the following three parts:At first, in the theme expression aspects of the work, concerning about the reality is one of the most important characteristics of the Japanese Neo-cinema Movement, and this character was well inherited by Nakashima. In Nakashima’s movies, strong personal style was used to express his individual visual field. Even though stylized image and easy tone is Nakashima’s movies’main characteristic, but unique visual language is not used to create the wonders. Aside Nakashima’s movies’ noisy formal characteristic to find the spiritual essence, which is the core meaning of "Nakashima’s expression", we will find that Nakashima always express his worries about the modern Japanese society by his movies.Secondly, in the narrative aspects of the work, after maximizing the ideographic effect of movie’s sound and picture, Nakashima is good at using variable-person narrative and view, meanwhile using a variety of narrative structure. These external ways not only make the roles fully satisfied and contented and the movie itself more ample, but also make the expression of Nakashima’s movies more abundant, diversification. What’s more, it also makes Nakashima’s movies more meaningful.At last, in the artistic style expression aspects of the work, Nakashima blends innovative ideas into the traditional stereo types. Special theme type, stylized image, rich and saturated color, exaggerated modeling, unconventional use of the music, all these movie means make Nakashima’s movies showing aesthetic characteristics like Rococo’s vanity and coquetry and cult style. Nakashima enhances the meaning of his work as well as expresses individual image style. He used the gorgeous film language to guide the audience, the content of the movies were mostly emerged in the exploration of human nature and reflection on the society.