help!

[Kumiko Saito]

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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>