e done about getting Mr. Aoki’s son back from the kidnapper. In the scene where two of the detectives find the man and woman dead, we see the detectives enclosed in the window of the house where, we the viewers are looking in. This is the closed form composition, which is used to help focus the viewers’ attention on the characters. In doing so, the characters’ surprise reactions to finding the accomplices dead are emphasized. Also the low lighting inside the house gives the film a tone of gloom. This helps set the scene to follow where the detectives give off the feeling of desperation. This technique of framing the characters expression is used again in the scene at the hospital. In the hospital scene, the detectives’ reaction is again framed in a window inside the hospital. Here his surprise and excitement is quickly brought to the viewer’s attention. At the same time, the two detectives closest to the viewers, frame the window that frames the detective inside the window, which seems to enforce the excitement aspect in the scene.The most simplistic way that Kurosawa uses the mise en scene is in the disco bar. He uses the arrangement of objects, space manipulation, as well as lighting to catch the eye of the viewer. Here we see a young Japanese girl who enters the bar and goes to the jukebox. But the viewer’s attention is still drawn to the criminal, Ginji Takeuchi, who is sitting at the bar. But when the girl reaches the jukebox and puts in money to play a selection, the viewer’s attention is diverted to her. This is because she is now framed by two disco ball-like polls that are glittering and shining from the dance lights from above. The space manipulation comes from the fact that the polls which she is standing between help separate her from all the action coming from the extras, who are dancing on the dance floor, as well as the criminal who is still sitting at the bar. You could also sa...
