Kokoro

(video by AsianVirusNet)

The novel of Sōseki attracted three film directors: Kon Ichikawa in 1955, Kaneto Shindô in 1973, and Shô Tsukikawa in 2007. The video above shows scenes from the movie of Ichikawa.

Kokoro: a Japanese word that means heart; the meaning deepens: heart of things, feeling; the novel is a meditation on the loneliness in modern society. You realize inexplicable mysteries wrap your friends, then you realize parallels exist with mysteries of your own. You explore deeper and deeper your heart, your memories, you go down further and further in your heart, to find there more and more hidden levels, of guilt and shame; it's loneliness that you discover at the heart of all things, and the feeling is that the only escape is death. Is it truly an escape? Think at the Seventh Dream of Sōseki: even death is no escape.

(Sōseki)