help!

[rasti moe]

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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