Film Style in Japan, China, and Korea

我们在三年期初的三个研究目标已经实现。第一个目标是到日本、中国、韩国各地收集电影、电视剧、电视广告。我们试图收集在日本找不到的材料。第二个目标是找到在收集的数据中明显可见的重复模式或“规则”。最后一个目的是比较检测到的模式，并澄清在三个亚洲文化的电影风格的差异。我们已经达到了这三个目标，明确了中国和韩国的电影风格与日本的电影风格有很大的不同。我们已经写了四篇论文来检查收集到的数据，并解释我们发现的电影风格。大量收集到的数据现在掌握在我们手中；这是我们28次访问亚洲国家的结果。它们以数字录像带的形式保存，不久将被转换成MPEG - 1文件，这样我们就可以将它们保存在光盘中。

Three research objectives that we had at the beginning of the three-year period were attained. The first objective was to make a trip to various parts of Japan, China, and Korea to collect films, TV dramas, and TV commercials. We tried to gather the material that was not available in Japan. The second objective was to find repeated patterns or "rules" that were remarkably seen in the collected data. And the last objective was to compare the detected patterns and to clarify the difference in film styles of the three Asian cultures.We have attained these three objectives, clarifying that Chinese and Korean film styles are quite different from the Japanese counterpart. We have written four papers to examine the collected data and to explain what we have found out about film style.A huge number of collected data are now in our hands ; they are the outcome of our trips to Asian countries that were repeated as many as 28 times. They are kept in the form of digital video tapes, and will be soon converted into MPEG 1 files so that we can preserve them in compact discs.