7/10
Visual Literacy
17 June 2023
Peace; The continuity in stillness and aesthetics of Yasujiro ouzo captures the viewer so that we read his films to the end at his command.

He attracts and dissolves us with his high visual literacy!

He can be recognized by his minimalist titles.

In his first plans, he slowly leads the viewer and step by step we notice a certain simplicity. He never surprises the viewer and shows himself very calmly. Yes, he is a tiger that does not show its teeth! They say: If you are not a tiger; You try to show your teeth, but a real tiger never shows its teeth first! He takes us with him and suddenly in successive plans without any conversation; We combine calculated compositions with a fixed camera with very simple views of everyday and repetitive subjects. In my opinion, these plans without dialogue lead the viewer to the other side (next sequence) like a bridge or a passage.

Without a doubt, Yasajiro Ezu can be called a composition master.

He obsessively places his camera where it should be and films from a short height (he says somewhere: I look at the world from the height of Japanese people sitting on the ground).

Among the features of Ezo plans, I can mention the following: 1- The camera is fixed in 95% of the plans.

2- Excellent use of depth of field.

3- The unique use of movements inside the image and entering and exiting them. Such as: people / trains / shadows / light / and... 4- The use of the first/second/third/fourth curtain of the picture and sometimes with the opening of a Japanese sliding door in the depth of the square, the fifth curtain is also used.

5- Fast and non-standard Hollywood editing. He never uses Dizalu.

6- Unique use of linear and surface composition. No line ever goes out of the corner of the frame!

7- The soothing use of lights (turning them on and off) creates a kind of joyful mysticism.

8- Bold and excellent use of the horizon line in nature scenes.

9-Sensitivity in using vivid colors and colored grays.

10- Very detailed arrangement and mise-en-scène with a kind of elegance and personality to things.

11- Using rhythm by repeating it in a plan (both in terms of form and color), look at teapots/drinking glasses/clothes/chairs and... 12- Creativity in translating a busy scene into an orderly and calm one.

13- Using repetitive actors and repetitive and familiar scenes.

In my opinion, Yasajiro Ezu paid more attention to the image than to the sound, and this shows the profound visual literacy of this master.

H. Hamidi.
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