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I studied on the directing of Kurosawa Akira’s One Wonderful Sunday centering around the shooting technique and film music. Summing up, the results are as follows. First, on the basis of the neo-realism defined by Susan Hayward, I reviewed what Suzuki Masaaki mentioned that Wonderful Sunday is ‘the Japanese version of neo-realism’. Although Wonderful Sunday was not filmed entirely on location and didn’t cast non-professional actors, I confirmed that other characteristics of this film are in accordance with the characteristics of the neo-realism film. Beyond distinguishing Suzuki’s opinion between right and wrong, This study provides theoretical basis appropriate for explaining the character and expression technique of Wonderful Sunday. Second, I considered the shooting technique in respect of the image transition and the camera movements separately. In regards to the image transition, I confirmed that Kurosawa didn’t enumerate cuts and space transition in order, but he used various technique with the course of the plot such as dissolve or fade. In addition, panning shot is standing out this film. Panning is originally to be used for the shooting scenes or movements not fit in a frame. But Kurosawa let the characters in and out of the frame so that he expose their feelings and situations effectively. As there are many scenes showing the couple running in this film, the director made those scenes relaxed, speedy and refined using the tracking shot, dolly-in technique and proper cut. Finally, I studied what Kurosawa intended with the film music by referring to the theory of Joseph Boggs since his previous work, The Men Who Tread On The Tiger’s Tail, received attention with its film music. Most of the inserted music was familiar to the Japanese public and arranged slightly so that the public could guess the original one. The music was arranged in various ways. In case of Frische Brise coming from the speaker of Yuzo’s lodging house after Masako left, It was used as same as the orginal one. The second movement of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony was arranged for the ending scene. In case of My blue Sky in model house sequence, its lyrics was removed and the melody was changed cheerfully. Furthermore, in comparison to his previous work, I confirmed this film shows the remarkable direction method using the sound of reality and connecting the sound of reality and the background music.

Since “Hear the wind song” had been published in Korea in 1989, Haruki Murakami’s works have struck Korean publication market every year. Especially when “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage” has announced in 2013, about 1,483 articles were written in that year. He introduced subcultural elements to his novels; hero in the novel is often introverted, sexually defensive male but in favor of women, and heroine in the novel is amazon who save the world from evil as well as the ingoing hero. In this aspect, Haruki is beyond the boundary between polite literature and popular literature and even embrace both in this age of literature crisis. Although people say it is the crisis of paper book but work pieces of Haruki Murakami are accepted more people than ever. The reason for this inconsistency is the period characteristics reflected in his works. It is obvious that the readers in this era, who are different from the readers in 1980, want different stories other than that age. Getting out of traditional only-test style, it includes illustrations and a warrior-like heroine destroys evils in the story. These aspects are very close to sub-culture. But the reason his works cannot be diminished as entertainment or sub-culture novel is because purpose of writing. While most sub-culture concentrate on stimulating their readers for stress solution, Haruki only uses those kinds of stipulations as tool. More important thing is that, modern readers increasingly want to “see” novels conveniently rather than “read”. Further, this cross-sexual age reflects men’s growing desire for strong women with Amazons. Like that, Haruki is establishing his world of works by utilizing sub-cultures very well. And his skillful control of tempo reflects the age characteristics without forcing them, which is the driving force that makes his works the world literature.