Stillness and violence go hand and hand in cinema. It is fair to argue one does not exist without the other. So often in Japanese cinema the designer creates beautiful, centered and still spaces as the place for a violent image or act. Akira Kurosawa and Tekashi Kitano films are classic cases. The 2011 film '13 Assasins' from Tekashi Miike is also an outstanding example. In this film the image of pain, sacrifice and evil are contained by the beauty of the design. Contained but not caged. The serenity brings with it the tension that it will not hold. It is only at the point that the violent image appears that the true nature of the beautiful space is revealed. Both the violence and the stillness are defined by their relationship to the other.
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