Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums Analysis
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) is a fascinating piece of cinema, due to it's length (running just over 2 hour) and few amount of shots, 140. This film is considered Myzoguchi's masterpiece and encompasses most of his cinematic techniques and qualities in one film.
The shot which best represents this is when Otoku walks down the street with the baby late at night and runs into Kikunosuke Onoue. The camera is from a very low angle in front and to the side of her, and follows Otoku as she walks, with, with about one third of the frame above her head. As the two cross paths, the walk together in the opposite direction Otaku was walking in, they're back towards the frame as the camera now follows them. They're back remains to the
The shot which best represents this is when Otoku walks down the street with the baby late at night and runs into Kikunosuke Onoue. The camera is from a very low angle in front and to the side of her, and follows Otoku as she walks, with, with about one third of the frame above her head. As the two cross paths, the walk together in the opposite direction Otaku was walking in, they're back towards the frame as the camera now follows them. They're back remains to the