A Study Of Hirokazu Koreeda’s Films From The Perspective Of Childhood

A person’s life will never exist independently without childhood,whether it is birth,growth,love,or success or failure,until the end,childhood exists in our life like a shadow.From the perspective of childhood,based on a close reading of 14 Hirokazu Koreeda films,this paper explores Hirokazu Koreeda’s view of children in his films and the influence of childhood on his creative style by using the theories of childhood,narratology,genre film theory,children’s psychology and Foucault’s right discourse.At the same time,it explains how Hirokazu Koreeda constructs children’s perspective,shapes children’s image and conveys children’s care through camera language in combination with Japanese traditional aesthetic concepts.This paper consists of five chapters.The first chapter is the introduction.The second chapter summarizes Hirokazu Koreeda’s creative process and film style,briefly analyzes the influence of childhood experience on his creative ideas and the formation of children’s complex,points out the mapping of early childhood scenes in real life to childhood scenes in his film works,and at the same time briefly summarizes the bland warmth and philosophical thinking of Hirokazu Koreeda’s films in the tide of commercial films from the perspective of the author’s films.The third chapter mainly explores the children’s perspective in Hirokazu Koreeda’s films from the perspective of narratology,explaining the establishment,connotation and family in children’s perspective,pointing out that Hirokazu Koreeda is good at showing children’s psychological world from the standpoint of children,and trying to put children at the core of Japanese families in a breakthrough way to treat family relations and family ethics in children’s eyes.The fourth chapter analyzes the children’s images in Hirokazu Koreeda’s films,pointing out that the children’s images can be divided into three categories: mature children beyond their age,lively and cheerful children full of vitality,and innocent children who remain childlike.Furthermore,it is pointed out that Hirokazu Koreeda created such a vivid image of children through documentary shooting,the perfect combination of documentary and imagination,and the careful grasp of traumatic memory.The fifth chapter explores the internal texture and extended significance of Hirokazu Koreeda’s films from the perspective of childhood,and tries to seek a systematic and innovative explanation for them from the perspective of childhood studies.Firstly,the aesthetic implication and poetic expression of children in Hirokazu Koreeda’s films are analyzed from three aspects: time,space and color.Secondly,the philosophy of children and death is discussed,and the education about life and death that children need most but lack most in the films,as well as the relationship between children’s interest in life in adversity,childhood and world view are discussed.Finally,the social issues concerned with children’s growth are discussed,the profound themes related to children hidden in Hirokazu Koreeda’s films are explored,and the symbolic,critical and healing functions of children are analyzed.In the conclusion,some thoughts about children’s films in China are put forward.Hirokazu Koreeda’s shooting concept of respecting children’s individuality and paying attention to children’s situation has important inspiration for children’s film workers in China.