New post (112) : Two strangers walking through the night in Kobe !
I watched this tele-drama - “The Children of Kobe” on - NHK World TV.
A most sensitively made film. Left me totally in awe. Saw it twice on the same day.
The backdrop:
January 17, 1995. A powerful earthquake hit the city of Kobe, Japan. In an instant, the large modern city was reduced to rubble, with 6,434 people dead.
Precious family members, familiar homes, gainful work, normal lives: without warning, all these and more were wiped out.
The story line:
Two well known Japanese actress and actor, Eriko Sato and Mirai Moriyama,
…play characters that both grew up in the town of Kobe and actually experienced the quake.
Strangers...to each other...They happen to meet 15 years after they survived this terrible disaster as children, and walk through the night of Kobe, …depicting internal struggles which they had kept silent since the earthquake.
When I watched it the 2nd time over it had retained all of its magic for me. The film has great repeat value.
Catch it. Watch it. Be touched. Be transformed.
Charlie Brown
