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with Professor Jane
Marie Law, East Asia Studies
This inventive and moving film about
modernization takes as its object the hypothetical reconstruction
of a murder/suicide in a small village in southwestern Japan
in 1980. The film's chief character is a hardened lumberjack
who finds himself drawn away from his rough and violent life
as he moves closer to an understanding of the divinity of nature.
Exquisite mountain landscapes and breathtaking camera work reflect
the Shintoistic purity and mysticism of the depicted area in
this masterful film by Mitsuo Yanagimachi, "an audacious
director who views with visionary clarity the problems faced
by modern Japan" (NY Times). Directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi.
1985, 2 hrs.
Cosponsored by the East Asia Program
and the Pentangle Program
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