There is a very beautiful image in cinema of a Buddhist monk weaving across a field among the war dead. He had been a Japanese soldier, in Burma, and as Japan surrenders in 1945, he becomes a monk with a purpose of burying the dead, a kind of Antigone for humanity.
The image is in The Burmese Harp, recently minted by The Criterion Collection.
I saw The Burmese Harp in the mid-1960s, during the Vietnam war, and the image stayed...
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