Takehiko Fukunaga (1918-1979) -- Memories of Darkness and Reverberations of Light Late 1940s-1970s

Takehiko Fukunaga (1918-1979) -- Memories of Darkness and Reverberations of Light Late 1940s-1970s
In Japan, where the coordinates of value were reversed after the defeat in the war, Fukunaga resonated the darkness of his personal history - the loss of his mother in childhood, the climate of Futsukaichi, and his long struggle with illness - with the darkness of postwar society. In his essay, he asks, "The more neon takes away the night and science extinguishes fear, the more the light of the heart grows dim. In "Flowers of Grass," he depicts the trials of love without the garb of ethics, and in "The Island of Death," he describes the disillusionment of beauty and redemption, establishing the original tone of loneliness and awe with a rigorous style that does not lean on the sweetness of the story. The border crossing that extends to poetry, translation, and film theory opens literature to a holistic sense and becomes a device for looking at both salvation and its absence. What was needed as the brightness of high growth increased was a gaze that would recover the darkness
and scoop up the faint light, and he did not sell the answers cheaply, but guided the reader with the contours of silence.