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Dec 22, 2017 · Dolce opens to a clinical biographical overview of writer and poet Toshio Shimao (1917-1986) as the narrator (Aleksandr Sokurov) thumbs through a family photo album, describing Shimao’s privileged life as the heir of an affluent merchant family, before enlisting in the Japanese military as a kamikaze pilot during the Pacific War. Stationed on ...
Mar 30, 2016 · Toshio and Miho are a married couple with two young children. Miho has recently discovered that her husband has been carrying on with a neighbour for quite some time and is uncertain how to deal with this unexpected revelation.
Oct 4, 2023 · In the aftermath of World War II, a writer's love affair with another woman drives his wife mad with distrust. Realising his errors, he tries all he can to save her from literally losing her mind. Kohei Oguri's haunting adaptation of the novel by Toshio Shimao is shot in a hyperreal style that is equal parts painterly and unflinching.
Kohei Oguri’s haunting adaptation of the novel by Toshio Shimao is shot in a hyperreal style that is equal parts painterly and unflinching. Featuring striking set design, powerful lead performances and a vivid evocation of small-town life in postwar Japan, The Sting of Death won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival while stars ...
Jul 12, 2019 · But perhaps the greatest of all Catholic Japanese novelists is Toshio Shimao (1917-1986). With Shimao, fact and fiction blend together in a particularly disturbing way. His theme is nothing less than an arresting, personal record of the human and spiritual costs of sin.
Before Shimao could more directly confront his war experiences (including the after-effects of war), he explored ways of dealing with them in a muted, symbolic, dreamlike fashion.
Oct 9, 2000 · Dolce. Russian cult director Alexander Sokurov uses the Italian word dolce (sweet, tender) as a title for this delicate, experimental documentary, inspired by the life of celebrated Japanese writer...
