Interactive Studies On Shunji Iwai’s Fiction And Film

As Japan’s new director Shunji Iwai, his sharp thinking and innovative spirit opened a new era of independent creation. He boldly requested the senior directors to abandon the idea of political attention,refuse grand epic narrative technique, another way to shift attention to the individual, to explore the spiritual world, the contemporary Japanese society and new problems arise. Shunji Iwai is the flagman of Asia’s highly influential and revival movement known as “Japan’s new film movement” and is know as most promising “Image writer”in Japan. The success of “love letter” in 1995, “April story” in 1998 and “everything about Lily Chou-Chou” in 2002 are the proves. Shunji Iwai shooted a lot of aesthetic style youth movies popular throughout the Asian film industry making Shunji Iwai a man of heavy influence and a well reputed director in the history of Japanese film development. Director Shunji Iwai’s remarkable position in the Japanese film development is not only because his numerous classical movies influenced Japanese and Asian film development but also because of his considerable skills in writing,painting, composing, screenwriting and directing etc...! Studying Shunji Iwai, this article trial uses the interrelation between film studies,comparative studies and literature etc, analyzes Shunji Iwai’s personal life experience and the creation of novels and films, the reason of mainobjective of novel adaptation and probability of novel adaptation, the relationship o interaction of film and novel creativity, th difference between novel and film two forms of art, utilizes demonstrative and deductive deductive research methods, detailed comprehensive interaction of Shunji Iwai’s novel and films. Through the interdisciplinary research of film and novel art, broadening the already existing research horizon, with a view to subsequent filmmakers and particularly the inspiration of writer director, at the same time by the progress of film making and development, by specifying a distinctive direction, this way,film literature may maintain a long lasting vitality.