Kenji Comes Home

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Movie
Original title Kenji Comes Home
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1949
Rod
Director Charles F. Schwep
script Charles F. Schwep
Basil Beyea (explanations)
production Paul F. Heard
music Merle Kendrick
camera Saburô Isayama
cut Charles R. Mustard
occupation

Kenji Comes Home is an American documentary directed by Charles F. Schwep that was first released in 1949. The film was nominated for an Oscar.

content

The film tells the story of Kenji, a young man who is in love with Aki, a Christian. He feels torn between the ideals of both religions. In addition, he is also unsure whether he can trust the promises communism makes.

The Buddhist Kenji, a Japanese soldier, has to cope with the humiliation that the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima Nagasaki for the Japanese. When he returns home there is no one to greet him. Images appear in his head that deal with cultural and religious traditions believed to be lost, such as tea ceremonies, the divine sun emperor and his own ancestors. The world as he knew it no longer exists.

Kenji's job search is difficult. At least he manages to protect the dirty orphan boy Shiro, who has been beaten and robbed by hooligans , from further attacks.

When Kenji meets Aki, the younger sister of a dead comrade, something is going on inside him as she tells him about her hopes for the future, which are based on her Christian faith. But that does not mean that he can easily detach himself from the education that has shaped him. When he discovers that in a Christian school that Shiro is now attending, all the books in the library are freely accessible, both communist and Buddhist, that contradicts what he has heard from a communist leader who was starting a revolution and has demanded strict rejection of Western culture. Kenji decides to read the Bible. At the end of the film, he says a prayer with his girlfriend.

production

The production company was the Protestant Film Commission.

Award

At the 1950 Academy Awards , the producer Paul F. Heard was nominated for an Oscar for the film in the "Best Documentary" category, but it went to the Crown Film Unit and the film Daybreak in Udi , which was about building a hospital for births in the Territory of the tribe of the Udi reported.

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literature

  • Terry Lindvall, Andrew Quicke: Celluloid Sermons: The Emergence of the Christian Film Industry, 1930-1986 , New York University Press, New York and London

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 22nd Academy Awards | 1950 at oscars.org (English)