A Comparative Study Of Emotional Expression In Chinese And Japanese Family Ethics Movies

In today’s era of flourishing visual images,movies are gradually playing an important role as media influence in presenting social reality and spreading national culture.As the basic unit of human society,family is not only the window of individual living conditions,but also the epitome of social relations.For Chinese family ethics movies,how to inherit and develop the cultural tradition of family ethics movies,take care of ups and downs of individuals destiny in the family,as well as show collective humanistic care are the main topics of great significance of the times.China and Japan,both of which belong to the East Asian cultural circle.Japanese family ethics films have a more standardized style pedigree,which share both similarities and differences with China’s of family ethics culture.Based on the above-mentioned research objectives and meanings,this paper takes family ethics films from two countries as the research object,and uses case studies and comparative analysis to investigate the realistic metaphors and symbolic meanings of emotional expressions in family ethics films in the context of increasingly frequent cross-cultural communication,so as to explore the cultural values and rich connotations conveyed by films in cross-cultural communication.This thesis extracts the cultural complexes and contemporary connotations in the emotional expressions of Chinese and Japanese family ethics films by sorting out the stylistic genealogy and development of Chinese and Japanese family ethics films.The visual language of lens,color and composition,the auditory language of character dialogue,sound and background music from the perspective of audiovisual language,compares and analyzes the image expression characteristics of the theme of "family" respectively,and further explore the same or similar ethical values in the emotional expressions of family ethics films in both countries,dissect the social mirror image of modern families in East Asia in terms of blood ties,family reconstruction and individual value expression,according to the selected Chinese and Japanese representative family ethics films since the 21 st century.The introduction and cross-cultural remake of family ethics films in China and Japan in the context of cross-cultural communication,explains the localization of consciousness and the interference of cross-cultural exchanges in films.