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Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (; born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish screenwriter and film director. ==Career== After graduating in media studies from the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-screenwriter and actor in films made by his older brother, Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was ''Crime and Punishment'' (1983), an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel set in modern Helsinki. He gained worldwide attention with ''Leningrad Cowboys Go America''. Kaurismäki has been influenced by the French directors Jean-Pierre Melville and Robert Bresson, and some critics have also inferred the influence of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, although Kaurismäki has said that he somehow never got around to seeing any of Fassbinder's films until quite recently. His movies have a humorous side that can also be seen in the films of Jim Jarmusch, who has a cameo in Kaurismäki's film ''Leningrad Cowboys Go America''. (Jarmusch used actors who have appeared frequently in Kaurismäki's films in his own film ''Night on Earth'', part of which takes place in Helsinki.) He has been called an auteur, since he writes, directs, produces and usually edits the films himself, and thus introduces his personal "drollery and deadpan" style. The dialogue is famously laconic: the articulation is usually extremely unadorned, direct and in strict standard language, without showing much emotion or drama. Characters usually stand still and recite the dialogue like it consisted of eternal truths. His characters rarely smile, nod sadly and usually expect the worst, and often smoke constantly. The camera is usually still.〔Ebert, Roger, The Man Without A Past, Chicago Sun-Times, 27.6.2003. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030627/REVIEWS/306270306/1023〕 Events are shown in a plain manner and characters are usually left alone facing the consequences. Much of Kaurismäki's work is centred on Helsinki, such as the film ''Calamari Union'', the Proletariat trilogy (''Shadows in Paradise'', ''Ariel'' and ''The Match Factory Girl'') and the Finland trilogy (''Drifting Clouds'', ''The Man Without a Past'' and ''Lights in the Dusk''). His vision of Helsinki is critical and singularly unromantic. Indeed, his characters often speak about how they wish to get away from Helsinki. Some end up in Mexico (''Ariel''), others in Estonia (''Shadows in Paradise'', ''Calamari Union'', and ''Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana''). The setting of most of his films is the 1980s, or at least contains elements from that decade. Kaurismäki has been a vocal critic of digital cinematography, calling it "a devil's invention" and saying he "won't make a digital film in this life". In March 2014, however, he reconciled, saying that "in order to maintain my humble film oeuvre accessible to a potential audience, I have ended up in rendering it to digital in all its present and several of its as yet unknown forms."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aki Kaurismäki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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