help!

rasti moe rasti at misato.bias.ne.jp
Mon Nov 9 21:02:56 EST 2009


Dear Roger
It was on iranian TV and it was dubbed in farsi.
now that i live in japan, am trying to find the movie but it seems i 
don't have much luck. i'll  keep trying.
On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Roger Macy wrote:

> Dear Moe,
> Could we take your successful enquiry one step further, please ?
>  
> In what country did you see this movie, and do you think it was at the 
> cinema or on TV ?
>  
> It interests me because in this country (UK) and others, back in the 
> eighties and before, considerable numbers of foreign movies were 
> broadcast and had subtitles prepared.   They certainly have not all 
> reappeared on DVD.  The broadcasting companies have all effectively 
> shed their public service obligations but managed to keep their 
> titling work, along with much other intellectual property, buried 
> in-house.
>  
> So there's more than one inaccessible list this film may be on.
> Roger
>  
>  
>  
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "rasti moe" <rasti at misato.bias.ne.jp>
> To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 7:31 AM
> Subject: Re: help!
>
> Thank you very much Kumiko san:
> That's it!  that's the movie I was looking for.
> appreciated.
>
> On Nov 5, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote:
>
> > The film version was made by Minoru Shibuya -- and has a very fine
> > cast.  I wouldn't mind seeing this -- but I'd be surprised if it ever
> > appears in subbed form.
> >
> > --- On Thu, 11/5/09, Kumiko Saito <kumikos at bgsu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Kumiko Saito <kumikos at bgsu.edu>
> >> Subject: Re: help!
> >> To: "KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"
> >> <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> >> Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 3:55 AM
> >> Hello Moe,
> >> The story you described sounded like Nagayo Yoshiro's novel
> >> Seido no
> >> Kirisuto, Christ in Bronze (sorry I'm more in the
> >> literature side). I
> >> don't know about its film adaptation, but Wikipedia (excuse
> >> my using
> >> it) tells the film version was made in 1955 and was shown
> >> at Cannes in
> >> 1956. The plot focuses on a blacksmith who was ordered to
> >> make a
> >> bronze "fumie" and he does it out of his romantic love for
> >> a Christian
> >> girl. He gets suspected to
> >> be a Christian himself because the Christ figure he created
> >> was too
> >> beautiful, and he gets killed. Good luck with your
> >> research! -Kumiko
> >> Sato
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Nov 4, 2009, at 22:26, rasti moe <rasti at misato.bias.ne.jp>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Bianca;
> >>> I've already checked Silence too but that's not
> >> it.
> >>> but thanks anyway.
> >>> by the way, I hear Scorsese is remaking the silence.
> >>>
> >>> On Nov 5, 2009, at 5:58 AM, Bianca Briciu wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello Moe,
> >>>> The film you are talking about is made after a
> >> novel by Endo Shusaku
> >>>> and it is called Silence (Chinmoku in Japanese). I
> >> don't know who
> >>>> made
> >>>> it but maybe you find it after the title. All
> >> Endo's novels are about
> >>>> Christianity in Japan and very, very interesting.
> >>>> Best, Bianca
> >>>>> Hi everyone;
> >>>>> I just joined kinejapan and got a question,
> >> appreciated if one of u
> >>>>> can help.
> >>>>> I'm searching for a title to a Japanese movie.
> >> it's a black and
> >>>>> white
> >>>>> movie probably made in 1960s and it's about
> >> prosecution of
> >>>>> christians
> >>>>> in sixteen century Japan.
> >>>>> a blacksmith is told to make a cross and to
> >> make people walk on it
> >>>>> and those hidden christian who wouldn't
> >> walk on cross are branded
> >>>>> Christian and punished. this blacksmith who is
> >> not a christian has a
> >>>>> sister who is a Christian and make him see the
> >> light so to speck and
> >>>>> I 'm not sure but probably he refuses to make
> >> the cross or walk on
> >>>>> it
> >>>>> and gets killed.
> >>>>> any suggestion?
> >>>>> thanks
> >>>>> Moe
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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