Discuss The Tragic Consciousness Of Shunji Iwai’s Films

In the 1990 s, Japanese filmdom launched a massive “New Japanese Film Movement” within the scope. Japanese cinema resuscitated thanks to the event. As the flagman of the new Japanese film movement, Shunji Iwai to the fresh aesthetic image style and exquisite emotional expression, occupy a place in the Japanese and Asian cinema. Shunji Iwai’s movie is the continuation of the traditional Japanese aesthetic consciousness, and the aesthetic consciousness of the Western understanding, the tragedy consciousness in the movie, Shunji Iwai of tragic aesthetics of original understanding. Therefore, tragic consciousness of Shunji Iwai film with a certain academic value.The first Chapter of thesis outlines the tragic consciousness, introduce the formation and development of the tragic consciousness in the process of the development of human civilization, the relationship between the interpretation of tragedy consciousness and tragedy, which leads to the tragic consciousness as a kind of life attitude to the influence of the aesthetic consciousness of the Japanese nation. Japan national tragedy consciousness formation is affected by the influence of geographical environment, historical, religious and other factors, on cherry love and of Bushido respect is tragedy consciousness embodied in Japanese culture, the different understanding and the understanding of death more traditional Japanese aesthetic consciousness, tragedy. Tragic consciousness also affects the development of Japan tragedy movie, in the Second World War as a dividing line, the absorption of western aesthetics after the Japan tragedy movie, more aggressive, intuitive performance of sex and violence, of Shunji Iwai film creation also had a certain influence.The second chapter is on the art of tragedy consciousness in the Shunji Iwai film presents analysis, first of all, in tragedy theory as the basis, discuss the connotation of the consciousness of tragedy in the Shunji Iwai film, including of death, loneliness, alienation with specific film interpretation. Thus, we can found the Shunji Iwai film of death that solidification time and the beauty of the unique understanding of the distorted alienation and individual feelings of loneliness deep experience of interpersonal relationship in the modern society. Secondly, combination of aesthetic theory of tragedy in the Shunji Iwai film art, mainly from the film the image symbols, color film and of light by three aspects of film image analysis, we is not difficult to find in the Shunji Iwai film of traditional Japanese beauty learn western aesthetics and the ingenious combination of, his film has both traditional Japanese film beautiful fresh, both the modern sense of cruelty and calm, beautiful world through image to us to convey the director of the deep understanding of the tragic sense. Finally, the use of "Mononoaware" and "mysterious" reflects the Shunji Iwai film inheritance of traditional Japanese aesthetics, performance Shunji Iwai to the psychology of the characters delicate description and heart feeling.The third chapter is the discussion of the aesthetic value of the consciousness of tragedy in the Shunji Iwai film, including the tragic reflection of reality, self-awareness and free will of affirmation, Shunji Iwai attention survival situation of people in modern Japanese society, pay attention to young people’s mental state, to image faithfully reproduce the real life, expressed in a complex environment to establish a positive affirmation of the true self, and to in trouble constantly strive to obtain truly free yearning for a better. I hope that through this study, to study the consciousness of the new perspective of Shunji Iwai in the film from the tragedy, to show its unique artistic charm of the film.