I like SOME of Scorsese’s movies. This one does sound boring. I really want Mel Gibson to take home best director he deserves it. That movie he did was the best since American Sniper. It was THAT GOOD. I think it is called Heartbreak Ridge, but no matter the name, please go see it. You will not be disappointed I promise.
Shusaku Endo and Ayako Miura were Japan’s Christian authors in the postwar era. My favorite Endo book is The Samurai, but Silence is his best known work. For Miura, my favorite is The Wind is Howling, but she is best known for Shiokari Pass.
Oooooooh. And I’ve been worrying about that all month...
I read this book years ago. I just hope anti-Christian Hollyweird hasn’t ruined the Catholic/Christian dimension of this.
Don’t forget the Oscars were sold to BLM
I keep seeing very positive reviews about this movie, but I’m wary - Scorcese hasn’t made a good movie in decades. I’ll give it a try, I guess - I’m certainly not going to see the latest Star Wars anti-Trump effort.
“...“Hacksaw Rdige.” But where that movie is hackneyed and dopey with heavy on the nose Catholic imagery...”
Isn’t Hacksaw Ridge about a Seventh Day Adventist?
I remember reading some interesting stuff years ago about the Japanese persecution of Christianity. The faith was driven underground, its practitioners had to outwardly adapt Shintoism to survive while passing their faith down in secret, by word-of-mouth, and often with no priests or written Scripture available. By the time the prohibition was lifted and underground Christians were able to practice their faith openly, it had evolved into a hybrid between the two, one that still exists today.
Their eyes were put out beforehand, and their young children were tortured close by, so the parents could hear their screams of pain. Being unable to see them made the parents' anguish far worse.
The last thing these parents heard on this earth was their children screaming for them to renounce so that the pain would stop.
I desperately want Eye In The Sky to be recognized by the Oscars and the late lamented Alan Rickman to be nominated for his last role in that film.