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<p class="ydp9ba5e47aMsoNormal">Dear Kyle,</p>
<p class="ydp9ba5e47aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Welcome to KineJapan.</p>
<p class="ydp9ba5e47aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Your subject is potentially very broad, so it is wise to limit your
thesis to a few films. I haven’t seen <i>Violent Virgin</i> – I would never
have thought to go to Wakamatsu as a source on Catholicism so I’ll be
interested in what you make of it.</p>
<p class="ydp9ba5e47aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">It’s perfectly logical to concentrate on Shinoda’s version of <i>Silence</i>,
as the Japanese-made one, but the problem there is that Shinoda’s was
emphatically made outside of a Catholic world, whereas Scorsese’s was very much
made within the strictures of his Church (although there is an Anglican bishop
in the story), and made much more to the later wishes of the deceased <span>ENDŌ Shūsaku who had latterly also brought
himself more within the Church’s strictures. I make a stab at that in my review
<a href="https://www.japansociety.org.uk/review?review=515" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">here</a>.</span></p><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>At Kineclub XVIII at Yale, March
’19, KAMIYA Makiko gave a presentation on ‘Christianism’ in some Japanese
films.<span> </span>The panel was related to MAKINO
Masahiro’s <i>Gate of Flesh</i> ‘48, but other films were cited. That presentation
may now be available online or written up elsewhere.</span>
</div><p></p><p class="ydp9ba5e47aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>How far do you want to go back ?
The one Japanese feature film made with specific backing of the Catholic church
was </span><span>Junkyō kesshi ~ Nihon nijū-roku seijin, <i>26
Martyrs of </i></span><i><span>Japan</span></i><span>, 1931, directed by IKEDA Tomiyasu. I have a lot of
unpublished work on that and rejected bids on presentations (be warned!) .
There is considerable published literature on it but little in english. What
languages can you read ? I have my rough translations on them.</span></p>
<p class="ydp9ba5e47aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>Roger</span></p>
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On Wednesday, 16 February 2022, 21:13:01 GMT, Kyle LaChance via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpcab8461dyiv4617636541"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello, I am a 2nd year Master's student writing my thesis on the utilization and presentation of Catholicism historiographically in Japanese animation and cinema. Currently I have identified 3 anime and 4 live-action cinematic works which I will list below. Are there other key works that I might be missing?</div><div><br></div><div>Anime:</div><div><i>Trinity Blood</i></div><div><i>Blue Exorcist</i></div><div><i>Seven Deadly Sins</i></div><div><br></div><div>Live-Action:</div><div><i>Vengeance is Mine</i></div><div><i>Silence </i>by Shinoda Masahiro</div><div><i>Sea and Poison</i></div><div><i>Violent Virgin</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>I appreciate any help and apologize for any inconvenience.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,<br></div><div><i></i></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="ydpcab8461dyiv4617636541gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Kyle LaChance</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Second Year in the Masters in International and Regional Studies</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">International Institute and Center for Japanese Studies<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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