THE BURMESE HARP - Kon Ichikawa - 1956 - ★★★★
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With its inspiring lyricism and deeply evocative framing and cinematography, this film about the end of the war becomes a spiritual discourse on compassion and inner peace. All of its faces, with their deeply moving expressions, in silence and pain, lift our gaze toward a reconciled humanity.

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LA HARPE DE BIRMANIE - Kon Ichikawa - 1956 - ★★★★
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D’un lyrisme enthousiasmant, au cadrage et à la photographie d’une grande profondeur, ce film de fin de guerre se transforme en discours spirituel sur la compassion et la paix intérieure. Tous ses visages au regard bouleversant, dans le silence et la douleur, élève notre regard vers une humanité réconciliée.

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ビルマの竪琴 [Biruma no tategoto / The Burmese Harp] (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)
While stationed in Burma, Mizushima disguises himself as a dhutanga, a wandering Buddhist monk, burying the remains of his fellow Japanese soldiers.

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1964
Photographer Cody Ellingham
Explores the Architecture of the First Tokyo Olympics

"The 1964 Tokyo Olympics was only a moment in time, but that bright flash of summer will be forever remembered by those who were there. For the rest of us, only weary concrete remains."

https://pen-online.com/arts/1964/?scrolled=2

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The people of early Japan contemplate different visions of immortality in Kon Ichikawa’s sprawling adaptation of the first chapter in Osamu Tezuka’s manga series, The Phoenix. https://wp.me/p1x9li-ksD

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A couple who met briefly in Manchuria are reunited in Kobe but find their joy short-lived amid the vagaries of the post-war society in Kon Ichikawa’s tragic romance, Nightshade Flower. https://wp.me/p1x9li-kqk

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A wise child critiques the post-war society in Kon Ichikawa's charmingly surreal familial drama, Being Two Isn't Easy. https://wp.me/p1x9li-iVz

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