AniWorthZeno: Kagirinaki Ai ni
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Zeno: Kagirinaki Ai ni is a movie about life and work of Brother Zenon Zebrowski, a Polish missionary in Japan. Brother Zenon was renown for his charitable work among victims of war and the poor in Japan.
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Zenon Zebrowski was a Polish missionary who took up residence in Japan in the early twentieth century. He became nationally renown for his philanthropic work in Japan in the decades following the bombing of Nagasaki, the closing of WWII, aiding in the construction of orphanages and homeless shelters, and providing relief for those stricken by poverty and disaster, natural or man-made.
The opening directly following the bombings is palpable and meaningful, viscerally depicting the immediate devastation of war, how it discarded people from their homes into death, sickness, and poverty, with little hope of meaningful intervention from the Japanese government.
It, in a sentiment not entirely expected by myself, doesn't waggle fingers at American ruthlessness. It would have been expedient to…
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Zenon Żebrowski - the man who essentially introduced the concept of volunteering in Japan and built as many as 30 orphanages after the end of the war. He created settlements for the homeless, and even the Emperor of Japan himself, Hirohito, bowed before him and awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure. Even the People's Republic of Poland - the Polish Communist government, notorious for its hostility to religion, which closed church premises and schools and turned seminaries into hospitals, recreation homes and workers' hotels - honoured his services with the Order of Merit of the Polish People's Republic. Two exhibitions in Tokyo have been created based on the story of this missionary, and a museum, bearing the mementos of a monk from Japan, has been set up in Czarnia (a village in Po…
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