Akinari Ueda

This film is adapted from “Muō no Rigyo” from “Ugetsu Monogatari” by Akinari Ueda, a magical realist tale written in Japan’s Edo period, also known as the source story for “Ugetsu,” the film by Kenji Mizoguchi. I paradoxically emphasized the subtle “kai’i (怪異)”—a Japanese word indicating something mysterious, strange, eerie, and sometimes dangerous—by reconstructing the storyline to make it rational and interpretable. I used photogrammetry to obtain its distinctive bumpy texture and create the strange scenery of a dream. By adapting the story of “Muō no Rigyo,” one of the tales in Ueda Akinari’s “Ugetsu Monogatari,” and using photogrammetry to render it as a 3D animation, I created this work. By extensively altering the uncanny tale of irrational events so that it could be interpreted as rationally as possible, I attempted to paradoxically present the remnants of contemporary mystery that still could not be fully filtered out. In addition, by using 3D models with distinctive textures obtained through photogrammetry, a somewhat imperfect technique that is weak in handling reflections, transparency, and motion, I attempted to create an eerie, dreamlike scene. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~