Title translation query

[Michael Kerpan]

Dear Michael --

Thanks for the feedback.

The film involves preparation of young men for military service and preparation of civilians for the their home front responsibilities (and for parting with loved ones).

Lots of documentary (or pseudo-documentary) footage of rallies, parades. (Stars Takashi Shimura. Susumu Fujita aKazuo Hasegawa, Yuriko Hanabusa nd Isuzu Yamada, among many others).  The cast suggests this was a fairly high-profile project.  One wonders why Naruse passed on directing this himself.

Michael Kerpan

--- On Wed, 8/25/10, mccaskem at georgetown.edu <mccaskem at georgetown.edu> wrote:

> From: mccaskem at georgetown.edu <mccaskem at georgetown.edu>
> Subject: Re: Title translation query
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 9:05 PM
> I regret that I don't know the film
> at all, but in many samurai films kakugo 
> indicates either: 1) the speaker is telling someone to get
> ready to/resign oneself 
> to being killed, as when Kuranosuke is about to kill Kira
> in Inagaki's 
> Chushingura; or 2) the speaker is resigning himself to
> risking his life against the 
> odds, or to facing certain death, These meanings of kakugo
> connect with 
> definition 3 all the way below.
> 
> http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=秘める
> &dtype=3&dname=2na&stype=0&pagenum=1&index=03682800
> 
>        
> 秘められた逸話
> an untold [a suppressed] story
> 
>        
> 彼女はその思い出をそっと胸に秘めていた
> She kept the memory all to herself.／She 「buried the
> memory quietly [locked 
> the memory] in her heart.
> 
> http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?p=覚悟&dtype=3
> 
> 1 〔心に用意のあること〕preparedness, readiness
> 
> ◇覚悟する｜prepare oneself, be ready ((for));
> 〔気持ちを引きしめる〕steel [brace] 
> oneself ((for, against))
> 
>        
> それは覚悟の上だ
> I am prepared for that.／I expected as much.
> 
>         覚悟はよいか
> Are you ready [prepared] (for it) ?
> 
>        
> 断られるのを覚悟で頼んでみるつもりだ
> I intend to ask him anyway, though I don't expect he will
> consent to it.
> 
>        
> 君が理不尽なことをやめないのならこっちにも覚悟がある
> If you don't stop doing such unreasonable things, I know
> what I must do.
> 
> 2 〔決心〕resolution
> 
> ◇覚悟する｜make up one's mind ((to do))
> 
>        
> 最後までやり抜く覚悟だ
> I am determined [resolved] to carry it through.
> 
> 3 〔あきらめ〕resignation
> 
>        
> この場合どうもしようがないと覚悟をきめた
> I have resigned myself to the situation.
> 
> Hope this may be of some small help. I really like the
> language you've already 
> chosen, if it fits the context well.
> 
> Michael McCaskey
> Georgetown Univ. 
>