Tag: YASUJIRO OZU

These days, most of us use modern digital technologies, ranging from cell phones, digital camera, GPS to Internet apps like Facebook or Twitter. Digital technologies has revolutionized how we interact with information, how we communicate and how we manipulate and store the data. Anyone who has a digital camera (and many of you probably own more than one) must have tinkered with image processing tools. Some of you did enhancement or text insert with one of those bundled software. Or may have used Photoshop or GIMP to give it more professional look. In any case, the processing techniques once limited …

Bright sequences in “There Was A Father” are; The field trip in Hakone, Scene 0397, B=0.4403 The father and the son visiting the castle ruin, Scene 0982, B=0.4372 The father and the son fishing in the river, Scene 1401, B=0.4731 The building of the father’s office, Scene 2009, B=0.4114 Schoolboys sitting on the bridge, Scene 2436, B=0.4445 The father’s last words, Scene 4764, B=0.3914 Understandably, 5 out of 6 are the (daytime) exterior scenes. There are several spots of dark sequences, three of which are; The wake session of the dead students, Scene 0623, B=0.1594 The night scene in the …

2. You are the commander in the war zone. Across the valley, the large troop of enemy awaits. You are waiting for the reinforcements, but there is no word from HQ. Then, a wounded messenger arrives with a COPY of the message from HQ. He says the original was destroyed by the fire, but insists that he copied MOST of it. The message reads you should start the frontal attack next morning. Don’t worry, the reinforcement will come and air strikes will assist you. But, the massage has lost many words in the course of duplication, smeared with blood, and …