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"Mission" released in 1986.
This work depicts the Jesuit mission to South America and the conflict with colonization. I wanted to see this movie again and watched it online.

At the time of the release, I was in Tokyo and had just quit my job, but somehow I was attracted to it and watched it in a small movie theater.

This time, I felt that I finally got the essence of this movie.
It has taken 35 years.

The theme of this movie is not religion, colonial rule, or human drama.
I think that the important thing for a person is to respect life, and that life (existence) should not be discriminated against by any person.

"Mission" is a fiction based on a true story. However, the missionaries who came to Nagasaki have achieved "superhuman deeds" as a historical fact.

In particular, it can be said that the way of life of the priests of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who came to the mission from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji era "influenced people as being more than God" or "lived the supreme way of life as a person". ..


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