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Emperor, empress to attend 1st movie premiere

Film is America's #1 export are a way of shaping opinion. Japan can show its beauty, strength of spirit and spiritual balance as a people through film. Japan has a great theatrical culture but also need actors and actresses that can play multi lingual roles in films. Film makers must be more daring and tell the stories that people have avoided telling. A film about HIroshima and Nagasaki could
lead to a day of world peace. This is the destiny of Japan to lead the world in spiritual enlightenment that comes from peace. By making more romantic comedies about a young couple thinking about having a baby.. could create a baby boom. Film makers can show the world another side of Japan and break some sterotypes which have a ripple effect through business, trade and the way Japanese tourists are treated. A little film lilke "Lost in Translation" and now "Letters from Iwo Jima" have huge impact especially in America that is a film going culture. The story of the young Korean man who gave his life to save another will be a healing opportunity for Japan and Korean culture. Everyone knows the horror stories, lets concentrate on what we have in common and share the gift of peace.

 

Sounds like a great movie. Hope it sees light of day elsewhere.

 

Is this gonna be a short? can anyone make a full length feature out of that incident? thats a 20 min film at the longest.

 

Hence the term, "based on a true story." Not mentioned in the article, but I would expect that's the way it's being presented. Hell, they could do a full 20 minutes just on the young man walking past a black van. Odds are it happened at one time or another, and they can fill in the blanks from there.

I can understand your skepticism, but it's a story that's worth being told.

On another note, it would be most encouraging if the President of South Korea attends the premiere in Seoul.

 

I don't know, but judging from the title I would guess that the film begins with the train platform incident, then goes on to look at the ramifications the heroic act had on the two men's respective families and acquaintances. Seems like a good vehicle to explore issues like Japanese-Korean relations, discrimination against ethnic Koreans in Japan, etc. That's plenty to take up two hours with.

 

and the audience's reaction-not a dry eye in the theater. The character development from the trailer alone was enough to show that this film was very well done.
The government might want to consider using this one, instead of nationalistic outdated tunes, to teach real moral education.
Glad that the emperor and empress give their stamp of approval.

 

the movie is great but it will not heal any cultural animosity between the 2 nations.

the secret to healing both nations is very simple. If only Japanese people respect Korean people like the way the Japanese worship the Americans, all animosity will be gone and Koreans and Japanese will walk hand in hand.

 

unlucky man falls on tracks. an even unluckier one fails to save him. be moved, manipulated and, ultimately, exploited by the elevation of bathetic failure to the glory of the greater good that must be served (for propaganda to have any validity).

if the would-be saviour had shouted out to the doomed man, "wish i could save you, but i can see that it would be futile to attempt it", he'd deserve the respect due an honest and smart man. instead, he died by miscalculation. two lives lost. they are hardly redeemed by becoming grist for the popular moral imagination (the beast that must be fed).

a pointless sacrifice.

 

Pure.. thoughtless comments..

 

obviously, some mental muscle went into mine. whereas your knee and heart speak for themselves.

 

I suppose you would say the young Korean man's "knee and heart" directed him to try to save the life of a stranger. Everyone likes to believe they would do the same, but this man actually did it. That makes him worthy of respect, at the very least.

If you ever have the misfortune of falling onto the tracks from a train platform, I hope all the bystanders are people who have read your "mentally muscular" comment.

 

At least it's a multicultural movie (or appears to be anyway).

 

His heart was in the right place. But his mind wasn't. Perhaps he wasn't capable of judging the circumstances accurately, blinded by a desire to help or....

I can't shake the suspicion that this incident is worthy of a Darwin Award.

 

Ha ha! I like it. Although I suspect this award is too cynical for cultures as maudlin and emotional as Japan and Korea's.

The whole incident was utterly pointless. Only one drunk salaryman should have died that day; not two people.

 

I hope that the Empr is able to by his ticket by himself.
Will he have a choice of seat?
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