![]() ![]() It seems a little choppy in execution but this might be the translation. This is one of Endo's earliest novels, though not his first. The Girl I Left Behind, Deep River, and The Sea and Poison are all quite honed with very little waste. The Christian novels ( Silence and The Samurai) seem bloated by comparison. In his non-Christian novels, Endo always seems to do a lot with very little. You might say the approach is minimalist. ![]() (Sorry.) The characterizations are quite thin yet they work. The book seems an object lesson in how much may be omitted from a narrative without evicerating it. A movie which to my knowledge has not been translated and released to the English-speaking world. It was made into the 1986 movie Umi to dokuyaku, directed by Kei Kumai and starring Eiji Okuda and Ken Watanabe. It is told from the first-person point of view of one of the doctors and the third-person perspective of his colleagues who cut open, experiment on, and kill the crew members. ![]() Set largely in a Fukuoka hospital during World War II, this novel is concerned with lethal vivisections carried out on downed American airmen. ![]()
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