菊次郎の夏 ＊ beautiful film week

This is the song "Summer," from the soundtrack of Takeshi Kitano's film Kikujiro (in Japanese, Kikujirou no Natsu--the summer of Kikujirou). There's lots I love about Japanese film in general that is represented here--the everydayness of it, the playfulness, the mingling of the surreal and the realistic. And of course I love to hear Japanese spoken. But what touched me most about this movie was how strongly it seemed to me to say yes to love and to acts of generosity.

(The soundtrack is beautiful, too.)

(Abby's posts.)