Film and Faith: A Conversation between Director Jumpei Matsumoto and Bishop Toshihiro Sakai
On 1 July 2026, a public conversation was held at Fujimi Academy in Tokyo between film director Jumpei Matsumoto and Bishop Toshihiro Sakai, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu. Here are some excerpts from their discussion on cinema and the life of faith.
“I pour everything into the creative process”
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. In this milestone year, Jumpei Matsumoto, a native of Nagasaki Prefecture and a third-generation atomic bomb survivor, talks to us about his film “Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash,” which will be screened in the Vatican Film Library on 31 October.
Japan's Great Revenge
Hisae Saki, a supernumerary of Opus Dei living in Nagasaki, talks about her mother's memories of the bombing of Hiroshima, her own conversion and marriage, and Blessed Alvaro's visit to Japan in 1987.