Hana-Bi (film)

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Movie
German title Hana-Bi
Original title HANA-BI
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1997
length approx. 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Takeshi Kitano
script Takeshi Kitano
production Masayuki Mori
Yasushi Tsuge
Takyo Yoshida
music Joe Hisaishi
camera Hideo Yamamoto
cut Takeshi Kitano , Yoshinori Ōta
occupation

Hana-Bi (Japanese:はなび; "Fireworks"), in the German language under the reference titles Hana-bi fireworks and Hana-bi - Feuerblume known, a Japanese movie from the year 1997 , which at the Film Festival in Venice in 1997 to Won Golden Lion .

Directed by Takeshi Kitano , who also wrote the script and played the lead role.

action

Yoshitaka Nishi is a civil investigator. While in the hospital he learns that his wife Miyuki is terminally ill, his longtime friend and partner Horibe is gunned down during surveillance. When the perpetrator is to be caught, he first escapes from Nishi, kills the policeman Tanaka and seriously injures his colleague Nakamura before he is shot by Nishi himself.

Horibe remains paraplegic and is abandoned by his wife and daughter, he turns to painting. Nishi is suspended from duty and goes into debt with a yakuza , among other things to support Tanaka's widow financially. In order to repay his debts, disguised as a patrolman, he commits a bank robbery and then sets off with his wife on a final trip that takes them to traditional Japanese destinations such as Mount Fuji . They are followed by the henchmen of the yakuza, who want to get hold of the remaining prey, and the recovered Nakamura in the exercise of his service. Shortly before the imminent arrest, Nishi shoots his wife and then himself.

Remarks

The literal translation of the individual characters as " fire flower " ( Hana = flower, Bi = fire) does not reflect the full range of meanings. Hana-bi is the name given to the public fireworks that take place every summer in Japan. These events are mostly financed by sponsors and often attract hundreds of thousands of spectators who come hours in advance. The deeper meaning of a Hana-bi lies less in the opulence than in the artistic expression and filigree images, hence the comparison with a flower. There is a scene in the film where a single firework is burned down.

While recovering from a serious motorcycle accident in August 1994, Kitano had begun painting pictures, some of them using the pointillist technique. The figure of Horibe is based on this biographical detail; the works shown in the film are by Kitano.

The girl on the beach who tries to fly a kite is Takeshi Kitano's daughter Shōko ( 井 子 ).

Awards

The film won the Golden Lion at the 54th Venice International Film Festival in 1997 . This was followed by the Critics' Prize at the São Paulo International Film Festival and the Silver Frog for cinematographer Hideo Yamamoto at the Polish camera film festival Camerimage .

At the 1999 Japanese Academy Awards , Joe Hisaishi won for Hana-Bi in the Best Music category . The film was also nominated for Best Picture , Best Director , Best Screenplay , Best Actor (Takeshi Kitano), Best Actress ( Kayoko Kishimoto ), Best Supporting Actor ( Ren Ōsugi ), Best Editing , Best Lighting , Best Sound, and Best Cinematography . The film won the Blue Ribbon Award in the categories of Best Director , Best Film , Best Actor (Takeshi Kitano) and Best Supporting Actor (Ren Ōsugi). Ren Ōsugi received the Hochi Film Award in 1998 for Best Supporting Actor and the film itself received the main award for Best Film . Hana-Bi won the Kinema Jumpō Prize as both an audience award and best film . At the Nikkan Sports Film Awards , Ren Ōsugi again won the Ishihara Yujiro Award for Best Supporting Actor . Ren Ōsugi has also won awards at the Yokohama Film Festival and the Mainichi Film Competition . In the latter, Hideo Yamamoto also won as cameraman.

Hana-Bi was nominated for the Argentinean Film Critics Association Award , the Chicago Film Critics Association Award, and the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for Best Foreign Film . The film was awarded the Critics' Prize of the Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma , the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award , and the European Film Prize for Best Non-European Film . The Russian Guild of Film Critics nominated Takeshi Kitano for Best Foreign Actor . The Independent Spirit Awards , the film was a Best Foreign Film nomination. He also received a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the César Awards .

criticism

“A brilliantly staged film with consistent stylization and skilful flashback technology, which conveys grief and guilt through extreme static and monochrome. A meditation about love, death and guilt, next to which violence is only marginally and alienated as an act of deepest despair. […] - Worth seeing."

- Lexicon of international film 

“The subject of this film is the expectation of death [...] and the implementation of feelings in art, here in painting. The film is formally brilliant, extremely stylized, beautiful and then violent again; he owes a large part of his impact to Kitano as an actor. "

- Ulrich Gregor 

In Germany, Hana-Bi was named “Film of the Month” in January 1998 by the Evangelical Film Work jury .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Hana-bi - fire flower . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 79 020 V).
  2. ^ Catholic Institute for Media Information and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Cinema, television, video, DVD . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-86150-455-3 , p. 1239 (Red. Horst Peter Koll, Stefan Lux and Hans Messias with the help of Jörg Gerle, Josef Lederle and Ralf Schenk, welcomed by Klaus Brüne).
  3. ^ Ulrich Gregor : Japanese cinema, yesterday and today: an overview . In: Community work of Protestant journalism (ed.): Epd film . No. 8/2002 , 2002, ISSN  0176-2044 , p. 20th ff .