I watched a Japanese movie called “Pale Moon（紙の月）”. It is a story about a solitary woman banker who embezzled transactions among customers and the bank. The woman has calm character and at first, she appeared not to be enthusiastic. However, missing each other in her life as a wife caused her weird love affairs with an undergraduate student. The story starts from a chant of the savior, but as the story progresses, the line of affairs shows separation of her life from real Christianity. A certain affair of embezzlement of small amount triggers her pitfall as significant set of embezzlements. The drama describes well of how a little act finally causes catastrophe of a certain person. It is finalized to prove that her desire for approval destroyed everything, though at first it was faint. This mismatch clearly showed divorcement from the true life as ‘savior’, with the parallel story for her episode as pupal in past. What she saw was a fake pale moon with no reality. The story also shows biased localization of the flow of money, somewhere too less and somewhere unnecessarily too much. The movie is also characterized of its pale illumination effects, and the ending is a song of The Velvet Underground.
By the way, I read a Japanese manga called “A-Un（阿・吽）”, which is a story of famous Buddhist monks in Heian period of Japan, Saicho and Kukai. In the book I have read, the writings of Kukai is demonstrated as illuminating the true character of the readers of the writings, without any intention from Kukai. His writings are catalysts of the enlightenments. The story of “Pale Moon” is also good enough to explain a certain type of such an enlightenment.
