Rewriting Literary Legends on the Screen: Asian Nobel Prize-winning Writers and Original Movies

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Language: Japanese

Release date: 1963-01-13 (Japan)

Length: 107 minutes

1963 "Ancient Capital"

1980 "Ancient Capital"

2005 "Ancient Capital"

2016 "Ancient Capital"

adapted from the novella Kawabata Yasunari . The author uses light and delicate brushwork to describe the joys and sorrows of the twin sisters Qianzhongzi and Miaozi, as well as the sense of loneliness in the world. Girls who can't love, they are beautiful and pure, and they are regrettable.

From 1963 to 2016, "Ancient Capital" was shot in 4 parts. The production is getting better and better, but the flavor is getting thinner. Director Nakamura's version is more in line with the atmosphere of the times described in the novel. The heroine Shima Iwashita plays two roles as sisters, and successfully interprets the slender and sensitive female image of Qianzhong, which is impressive. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards.

1957 "Snow Country"

Director: Shiro Toyota

Screenplay: Toshio Hachizumi/ Yasunari Kawabata

Starring: Ryo Ikebe/ Keiko Kishi/ Kaoru Yachigusa

Genre: Drama/ Romance

Production country 1zz0 language: Japanese

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: 1957-04-27 (Japan)

Length: 133 minutes

1957 "Snow Country"

1965 "Snow Country"

1977 "Snow Country" (Korea)

2001 "New Snow Country"

adaptationFrom Kawabata Yasunari's novella "Snow Country". The beauty of nothingness, beauty and sorrow described in the original work reached the extreme, which made people both heart-stirring and melancholy. The beautiful imagery description in the work is integrated into the expression of the characters' emotions, with a touch of sorrow, showing Kawabata Yasunari's thoughts of sorrow. Among all the works of Kawabata Yasunari, "Snow Country" has been translated the most overseas. There are multiple versions of the adapted film. In 1957, the version directed by Toyota Shiro was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 11th Cannes Film Festival. In 1977, South Korea made a remake, and in 2001, Japan made another "New Snow Country", but it was far from the original.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

Representative works: "Gitanjali", "Asuka", "Sand in the Eye", "Four People", "Family and World", "Garden Collection", "New Moon Collection", "The Last Poem", " "Gola", "Crisis of Civilization", etc.

Nobel Prize Comment: Because of his superb skills in expressing his keen, fresh and beautiful poems and expressed in English, his poetic thought has become a part of Western literature.

Rabindranath Tagore

Indian poet, writer, social activist, philosopher and Indian nationalist, known as "the world's Eastern poetry." Tagore is the first Asian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is prolific and versatile. He has published more than 50 collections of poems, 12 novels, more than 20 plays, and many travel notes, essays, essays and monographs. In addition, he also created a large number of music and painting works. Tagore's creative methods organically combined realism and romanticism. His poetic style had a significant impact on modern Chinese literature and inspired a generation of writers such as Guo Moruo, Xu Zhimo, and Xie Wanying.

2011 "The Shipwreck"

Director: Rituparno Ghosh

Screenplay: Rabindranath Tagore

Starring: Prosenjit Chatterjee / Jisshu Sengupta / Dhritiman Chatterjee / Raima Sen / Riya Sen

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Duration: 144 minutes

2011 "The Shipwreck"

is adapted from Tagore's novel "The Shipwreck" created in 1902. The work cleverly organizes the dramatic plot and the logic of life, and tells the story of a shipwreck accident. Love story of inconsistency. From the joys and sorrows of the two lovers, they celebrate the loyal love and portray the vivid and complicated characters of the hero and heroine.

2003 "Sand in the Eyes"

Director: Rippano Gosh

Screenplay: Rippano Gosh/ Robin Dranath Tagore

Starring: Aishwarya Rai/ Prosenjit Chatterjee/ Raima Sen/ Lily Chakraborty/ Tota Roy Chowdhury

Genre: Story

Country/Region: India

Language: Bengali

Release Date: 2003-08-09 (India)

Length: 167 minutes

2003 "Sand in the Eye"

is adapted from Tagore's novel "Bina Tini". The story is based on the Bengali society under the British colonial division in the 1900s. A widow named Binatini faces her own bad luck, which highlights Binatini's rebellious spirit against tradition. The

movie is starring Aishwarya Rai, who won the honor of "Miss World". In the same year the film was released, Aishwarya Rai was invited to serve as a judge at the Cannes International Film Festival, becoming the first in Indian history. The film was nominated for the Golden Leopard Award at the 56th Locarno International Film Festival.

1957 "The People of Kabul"

Director: Tapan Sinha

Screenplay: Robin Dranath Tagore / Tapan Sinha / Premendra Mitra

Genre: Plot

Production country/region: India

Language: Bengali

Release date: 1957-06 (Berlin International Film Festival)

Length: 108 minutes

1957 "Kabulers"

adapted from Tagore's short story "Kabul" ". The most touching part of the work is the sincere friendship between the Muslim low-level vendors, the illiterate Kabul, and the high-level intellectual writers of Hindu Brahmins and princes and nobles, and the sincere friendship between the lines is full of Tagore's infinite sympathy for the little people. The film won the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.

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