About submission

Rating: Null/10 (7 January 2017)

I gave it 6 because I feel the actors playing Christians should have had more passion. But I am glad there is an opening up of Japanese history at all. This film is about the period during which Christians were all but exterminated in Japan.
It should be a useful antidote to western New Agers' fluffy view of Buddhism as a meditative peace-fest. The indigenous religion of Japan was/is Shinto race worship/ancestor worship under goddess Amaterasu, plus a later foreign admix of Buddhism, with all the cold-blooded mercilessness of Karma-and its cruelly onerous duties, even today.
And, like the other 'religion of peace', really about submission, enabling the working to death of employees, pushed by parents, child rape etc., with no voice of dissent. should be an eye-opening film. The persecutors do what utilitarianism does; the Kirishitans were not of use to the regime, so they are dispensed with. Christians, on the other hand, love God and others because they are made in His image. That is the underlying theme of this movie. The apostates forgot their own real value and ceased to be spiritual men.