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Sep 07, 2017bobbles1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I write a few weeks after watching this great movie, and it still haunts me....the bravery of these men and women and the strength of their faith is striking.....but they were not able to overcome the tortuous, hopelessness-inducing, seeming inevitability of failure in the face of the impregnability of Japanese culture to Christianity....and this is explained well here on a secular level.....it is interesting to compare it to the Shin Godzilla movie, another explication of Japanese culture which is permeated with tradition, hierarchy, and subtle power relationships, all unchallenged and unchallengeable in both movies, and which have so far protected the culture from change and evolution.....