"Utaandon" - Utaandon

Japanese: 《歌行灯》 - うたあんどん
"Utaandon" - Utaandon

...He is known as a "pessimistic melodrama writer" for his fondness for depicting the moneyed attitudes of Tokyo's downtown and the harshness of the arts, but his scripts' vivid cinematic form goes beyond the typical Japanese dampness to bring him into contact with cinematic universality. The beauty of the sunlight filtering through the trees in the woods of "Uta Andon" (1943) foreshadows Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950) through the cinematographer Nakai Asaichi. [Hasumi Shige]...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Utaandon" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…東京の下町の金銭感覚,芸道の過酷さなどを好んで描き〈ペシミズムのメロドラマ作家〉とも呼ばれるが,脚本の日本的な湿り気を超えた鮮烈な映画的造形性によって映画的普遍性と接し合っている。《歌行灯》(1943)の林の中の木漏れ日の美しさは,撮影の中井朝一を通して黒沢明監督の《羅生門》(1950)をはるかに予告している。【蓮實 重】。…

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