Re: Tenkô in Japanese film ?

[Mathieu Capel]

Yes Michael you're right, tenkô in Kurosawa's Waga seishun ni kuinashi
is some kinda of "fake" : Susumu Fujita's character dies anyway in
jail - but does not this character seem to be designed from this
question of tenkô ? By the way, Okochi Denjirô's character may be
considered as an example of tenkô - but his tenkô is slightly depicted
(but anyway, to be depicted as something quite natural, or "normal",
is something which theoritically matches the idea of tenkô, isn't it
?).

Mathieu Capel
Paris