Action Adventure Film

Japanese: アクションアドベンチャーフィルム - あくしょんあどべんちゃーふぃるむ
Action Adventure Film

...It contains all the basic elements of an action movie: crime, death, violence, and speed, including a speeding train, robbery, murder, and horse chases (the same can be said for the so-called "serial action" that originated in France, such as Louis Feuillade's "Fantômas"). Its worldwide success proved that the origin of film was action itself, and it determined one of the directions of subsequent films, and came to form the mainstream of American films in particular. It is also sometimes summarized as an "action-adventure film." Westerns and war films are often considered to be separate and distinct genres, but the genre generally referred to as "action films" includes entertainment film genres that depict the actions of individuals or small groups of people who take on danger, such as serials, sword fighting films, pirate films, chivalry films, adventure films, sports films, spy films, crime films, martial arts films, and aviation films, as well as thriller films that focus on the thrill of chasing and being chased, prison films that feature themes of riots and prison escapes, and "kamikaze missions" and "local battles" that are called "B-grade war films" or "battlefield films."

*Some of the terms used in the term "action-adventure film" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…疾走中の列車,強盗,殺人,馬による追跡など,犯罪と死,暴力性とスピード感というアクション映画のもっとも基本的な要素をすべて内包しており(フランスから起こったいわゆる〈連続活劇〉,例えばルイ・フィヤードの《ファントマ》などにも同じことがいえる),その世界的なヒットが映画の原点はアクションそのものであることを証明し,その後の映画の方向の一つを決定し,とくにアメリカ映画の主流を形成することになる。〈アクションアドベンチャーフィルム(冒険活劇映画)〉として総括されることもある。西部劇や戦争映画は独立した別個のジャンルとみなされる場合が多いが,一般に〈アクション映画〉と呼ばれるジャンルとしては,危険に挑む個人,または少数のグループとしての人間の行動を描く娯楽映画のジャンル,例えば,連続活劇,チャンバラ活劇,海賊映画,騎士道映画,冒険映画,スポーツ映画,スパイ活劇,犯罪映画,武術映画,航空映画,それにスリラー映画でも追いつ追われつのスリルを主眼とする〈巻きこまれ型〉から追跡に至るもの,暴動や脱獄をテーマにした〈監獄映画〉,あるいは〈B級戦争映画〉とか〈戦場もの〉と呼ばれている〈特攻作戦もの〉や〈局地戦もの〉などが含まれる。…

※「アクションアドベンチャーフィルム」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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