DerGolem wrote:
My Japanese Film class was scheduled to watch Itami Juzo's Tampopop (1985) today but our professor came in and announced that in light of the recent tragic events in Japan he was changing today's film to Gojira, which had originally not even been on the syllabus. He said that he was going to show Gojira since it was a perfect example of how the Japanese people deal with tragedy as that seen after the Second World War and today in the wake of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear power plant breakdown.
Honda had much to say in regards to how society deals with tragedy in Japan as exemplified by the discussion on the commuter train (the same couple later appears on the cruise ship in Tokyo Bay).  What did your professor and the class say about this aspect of the film?