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1960's Siegheilkirchen, a small town in the Austrian hinterland is steeped in reactionary and ultra-Catholic attitudes. The son of a hard-working innkeeper and his wife, called Snotty Boy by all and sundry, is at odds with the narrow-minded confines of his home town. But his unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent.
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静かな海辺にある孤島の灯台で、お父さんのコナー、お母さんのブロナー、愛犬のクーと幸せに暮らしていた男の子のベン。彼らは、新しい家族を迎えようとしていた。大好きなお母さんから、「あなたは世界で一番のお兄ちゃんになるのよ」と言われ、ベンも赤ちゃんが生まれてくる日を楽しみにしていた。
優しくて物知りなお母さんは、ベンにたくさんのお話や歌を教えてくれた。巨人のマクリルと愛犬の物語や、アザラシの妖精セルキーが歌うと妖精が家に戻れる不思議な伝説、古い言葉で綴られる美しい歌など……。
ある晩、ベンはお母さんに海の歌が聞こえる貝の笛をもらう。うれしくて、笛を大事に抱いて眠りについたのだが、目を覚ますとお母さんの姿が見当たらない。 お母さんは赤ちゃんを残して、海へ消えてしまったのだ。
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Somewhere Down the Line follows a man’s life, loves and losses, shown through the exchanges he has with the passengers in his car.
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When Japan opened its borders in 1854 after a period of extreme closure, it was revealed that there were thousands of Japanese Christians hidden around the area of Nagasaki; they had survived during 240 years secretly practicing their religion in their homes. Western nations received the news with joy, but the laws prohibiting Christianity in Japan were still in force, which caused a last wave of religious persecution, the most savage of all. This true story tells the personal experience of one of the survivors, Jinsaburo Moriyama, who was jailed in the prison camp of Tsuwano from 1867 to 1873, when the persecution stopped due to the international pressures.
