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Dialogue: Li Ying


October 11, 2007 In 1997, Chinese director Li Ying moved to Japan to document ordinary Japanese speaking their minds inside Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni shrine. Therein, Shinto Buddhists believe, lie the souls of 2.4 million dead, merged inside a ceremonial sword. Of course, the sword -- made at the temple -- was the tool of more than a few Japanese officers who ordered the pillage of much of Asia in the 1930s and were later deemed Class A war criminals.

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