![]() ![]() Making the best use of “literary properties,” Toson took pains to explore the psychological dimensions of his hero’s struggle in great detail. Set in 1903, during the late Meiji period, both novel and film depict a young teacher’s coming to terms with himself and society’s lingering feudal prejudice against his class of burakumin, then Japan’s minority group.īut novel and film take strikingly different approaches to a topic still sensitive in the Japan of the 1960s. The prestigious film journal Kinema Junpo ranked it as the fifth best film of 1962. ![]() Toson’s pioneering work of social realism created a sensationon television, so the director collaborated again with his wife and scenarist, Natto Wada on the film the following year. McDonald: Kon Ichikawa’s Hakai (The Broken Commandment) began in 1961 as a televised dramatisation of Toson Shimazaki’s novel of the same title first published in 1906. ![]()
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