SHOHEI IMAMURA

[LETRIC]

I have recently watched a couple of his films after exhausting the local library's impressive catalog of Kurosawa fims. I would personally recommend "Black Rain". This is NOT the American film of the same name but a portrait of a family exposed to blast radiation from the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. No other film have I seen that deals so intimately with the Japanese people's impressions of this delicate subject more provocatively than this film.

[Mensageiro]

Black Rain is originally a novel by Masuji Ibuse, BTW http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

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Um Oriente a oriente do Oriente- Fernando Pessoa

"An East to the East of the East"

[LETRIC]

Thanks for the info. I hope the images the book creates are as vivid as the movies' were. This movie changed my stance on nuclear weapons upon which I won't endeavor to digress.

[Tachikaze]

I hope everyone watches it, then.

[Grim]

Hell of a movie...

Makes me thirsty for water, now that you mention it.

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"Je vous repondrai par la bouche de mes canons"
-Frontenac
(I will answer you with the blast of my canons)
-Trad. libre

[Tac]

Watch an anime film called GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES.

Its eye-opening and heart-wrenching.