help!

[Michael Kerpan]

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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
>