From the start of the research essay assignment, Seven Samurai was my first pick as my research topic. I watched the film for the first time earlier this year when the spring semester began. I was aware of Akira Kurosawa and his legacy, but I had never seen any of his films before. As I watched, I could see the influence the movie had the narrative elements of prominent films that followed. From there, coming back around to the research assignment, I knew such a prominent Kurosawa film would have an abundance of scholarly articles and analyses from reliable sources for me to take advantage of. With that, however, came a drawback: finding new ground. I had not reached a brick wall with the assignment. It was more like a deep ravine, and I needed a bridge of some sort. While reviewing what I knew about Seven Samurai, I took an interest in how often I had seen elements of the plot, a group or individual assisting a helpless mass to defend themselves from an outside threat, reused …show more content…
The sunny outside is contrasted by the inside of Max’s car, casting a darkness on his face and inside the car, symbolizing the former cop’s psychological condition shortly before he takes out two of his pursuers without remorse. I felt like I was finally getting my footing on the assignment, and the words followed easily after. Once I had wrapped up my discussion on The Road Warrior, my attention went to Star Wars. Like anything by Kurosawa, I knew that I could easily find reliable information on Star Wars from academic sources. For this bit, I utilized the Ole Miss database and quickly had my sources lined up and evaluated. I had never used a database before, so it was a new experience. Fortunately for me, the system was easy to use and the checkboxes on the side allowed for me to easily narrow down the
Knights and samurai have a lot in common. For example, they both follow a code and protect land. Although they are very similar, there are a lot of things that set them apart. Samurai had a different social status, had different weapons, and expectations. While knights and samurai have many similarities, in a one on one battle, the advantage would be to the knights and this can be seen in their honor code, training, and armor.
Samurais or a knight? The question was, who would win the battle? A samurai - a samurai? Or a king of a knight? Of course they both have their advantages and disadvantages, but they also both have things in common that they can't do.
In The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama, a young man is thrown from his established world, left in a new, confusing realm that holds more than meets the eye. In the midst of a violent and ferocious war between the Chinese and Japanese in mid 1937, this young man, Stephen, contracts tuberculosis, and is sent to his family’s summer house in Japan. There he meets the house’s caretaker, Matsu, a simple and reserved man who holds back all but the most necessary speech. This meeting will come to define many of Stephen’s interactions with others throughout the novel: reserved and limited. In this odd land filled with subtle secrets and unspoken uncomfortability, Stephen is prepared for a very quiet and restful period, marked with healing and growth.
Have you ever thought that the Samurai warriors and the Medieval Knights had something in common? The Samurai and Knights fought in war, and they had to honor their code of conduct. So do samurai warriors and Medieval Knights have anything in common? The similarities between Samurai and Knights were greater than the differences. This can be seen from three important areas; social position, training and armour, and honor and death.
Inquiry Question: Why were the passengers on the Komagata Maru rejected to stay in Canada?
Next Conlan addresses the question of battle tactics and unit organization. Plodding through what had to be no doubt a great many gunchujo to see with what regularity and what ways warriors endured injury. He demonstrates that the fighting around the fall of Kamakura shogunate was far and away the most extreme of the fourteenth century and that the prepo...
The Last Samurai is a film that is often used to teach history in classes. The last Samurai represents the end of an era. The film does a good job of teaching many parts of Japanese History. This movie teaches us about the way of the Samurai, and their beliefs and traditions. The movie also expresses what life was like during the Meiji Restoration. You can see in the movie that technology started to advance, gradually decreasing the amount of Samurais. The Satsuma Rebellion, which lasted for 6 months, was shown in the movie as a battle between tradition and modernisation. Even though this film is not entirely accurate, it has some key historical events which are good for learning about this historic period.
...tates that the Japanese did during the retelling of the forty seven Ronin; this story touches people because it is part of their culture and history as well as the fact that the different ways of it being told is still able to produce tears and pain in people’s hearts. (62)
Akira Kurosaw’s Seven Samurai is a film that encompasses various ideologies in order to allow the audience to understand the lives of Japanese people during the 1600’s. The film delves deep in social issues of the roles of the people within the society, the expectations as well as the obligations within the respected castes and elements within groups of ; suffering, working together, protecting family and working for the better good of the community.
Throughout history artists have used art as a means to reflect the on goings of the society surrounding them. Many times, novels serve as primary sources in the future for students to reflect on past history. Students can successfully use novels as a source of understanding past events. Different sentiments and points of views within novels serve as the information one may use to reflect on these events. Natsume Soseki’s novel Kokoro successfully encapsulates much of what has been discussed in class, parallels with the events in Japan at the time the novel takes place, and serves as a social commentary to describe these events in Japan at the time of the Mejeii Restoration and beyond. Therefore, Kokoro successfully serves as a primary source students may use to enable them to understand institutions like conflicting views Whites by the Japanese, the role of women, and the population’s analysis of the Emperor.
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Professor Eric Foner of Columbia University states, “I've spent half of my life living in the North and half living in the South. As I grew up in the North, I never really thought about Reconstruction and would probably have said that it had eventually succeeded. However, after living in the South and witnessing firsthand some of the remaining negative effects of Reconstruction, I have to admit that it failed. It was considered a failure because there were all these charges of corruption.” He said that it was considered a failure because of the violence which took place and the inability of the governments to put it down. And increasingly, racism reestablished itself in the North. After this moment of equality, the idea of what we call social
The Japanese warrior, known as the samurai, has played a significant role in Japan's history and culture throughout the centuries. Their ancestors can be traced back to as far as can be remembered. Some stories have become mysterious legends handed down over the centuries. In this report you will learn who the samurai were, their origins as we know them, how they lived and fought and their evolution to today. It will be clear why the samurai stand out as one of the most famous group of warriors of all times.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1968. Henderson, Mary. Star Wars: The Magic of Myth. 1st Ed.
Thus, although horrific behavior on the part of the Japanese occurred in instances such as the Rape of Nanking, to argue that such behavior was supported or even sanctioned by the Japanese and Japanese society appears to be an unfair and inaccurate judgement. Through this, the propaganda film’s definition of Japan, its society, and its values are visibly warped by the presence of a wartime lens. A similar distortion can be seen with regards to the propaganda film’s view on education and the youth in Japan, who it argues are hammered into “images of the samurai” (Know Your Enemy 51:20-52:50). Know Your Enemy: Japan thus, in its fixation with Japanese militarization and the Japanese war effort, fails to acknowledge any nuance with regards to Japan’s education. Ultimately, this shortcoming in understanding as a result of fixation also occurs regarding anti-Western sentiment in