Sansho Dayu

[poliphilo]

Sansho Dayu is another movie that contrives to be both compassionate and detached. I guess it's a Buddhist thing. Actually it's very much a Buddhist thing. If this were a western film and the statuette of Kwan-Yin were a crucifix I'd be squirming.

Comments

[darkthirty.livejournal.com]

Compassionate and detached is something that slowly, but seemingly inevitably, is coming to me. It has to do, perhaps, with what my Buddhist friends refer to as mindfulness - which in some ways may be a true function of age.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I believe you're right.