Originally I wanted to write about my purpose and what it means to be a monk because of these thoughts I’d been having. I was attending at a funeral in the village where I was born and I had two simultaneous feelings:
A quiet and overwhelming realization that we are alive (which took me by surprise).
A realization that despite the overwhelming nature of my current perspective, I might be the only one appreciating it.
-Missei Shirakawa, “Monk: Revival Of The Film Adaptation.“
そもそも、僕が自分の役割、坊さんのことを文章に書きたいと思った、大きな
理由は、例えば、僕が生んでいる農村で、お葬式を拝んでいるときに受けた、
「人が生きることに根ざした静かで圧倒的な感じ」のようなものに驚くと同時に
「ああ、この風景は、こんなに圧倒的なのに、自分しか見ていないのか」
という思いがあったんです。
ーー白川密成さんが『坊さん。映画化復活篇』の中で