A Burmese Buddhist sailor (William Shatner) seeks revenge upon a ship's captain (Martin Balsam) who refused to pick up the sailor's younger brothers at sea, leaving them to perish.A Burmese Buddhist sailor (William Shatner) seeks revenge upon a ship's captain (Martin Balsam) who refused to pick up the sailor's younger brothers at sea, leaving them to perish.A Burmese Buddhist sailor (William Shatner) seeks revenge upon a ship's captain (Martin Balsam) who refused to pick up the sailor's younger brothers at sea, leaving them to perish.
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Narrator: In the great port of Rangoon, in a hut near the docks on a straw pallette, Maung Tun was born twenty-four years ago. His mother fell ill. It was not until seven years later that she gave birth to her second son. Then, without difficulty, came the third, the fourth, and the fifth. Maung Tun's father worked on the docks, loading the ships with rice, teak, and oil. One day a thief stole the father's wages. The neighbors came to console him, but Maung Tun's father said, "No, the man was no doubt in desperate need, else a man would not steal. I am unhappy only that it was my money that provided his temptation." Maung Tun was twelve years old when his father died. His mother took up sewing, and each year she held a memorial service for the needles she had broken during the year. This pious woman taught her sons that the heart which looks up in gratitude to Buddah is filled with love and kindness to all beings, indeed, even to a tree or a blade of grass by the roadside. She taught them mutual respect, the protection of lower animals, and the care of even a grain of wheat, or a sheet of paper. Maung Tun was sixteen when his mother died; so to feed and educate his brothers, he went to sea. The neighbors said it was no life for a Buddhist. But Maung Tun said, "No, it is an opportunity to bring the word of Buddah to those living far away."
Striking out at Barris Tuh mistakenly runs his wife Betty, Linda Prochnicka, through with a knife killing her when she opened the door of the couples apartment that he, acting as a grocery delivery boy, knocked on. Now not only wanted by the NYPD but having killed a living and innocent human being Tuh goes into a deep depression that has him on the brink of wanting, a major sin in Buddhist religion and culture, to do himself in Japanese hara-kiri style! That unless the NYPD get to him first!
***SPOILERS*** Confused befuddled and a bit psycho Maung Tuh roams the streets on NYC looking for salvation in what he did and ends up at a local Buddhist Temple in the Chinatown section of the city. It's there that the understanding and kindly Reverend Nakamura, Otto Han Yamauka, tried to talk him out of doing himself in and face whatever justice h's to answer for in killing Betty Barris. In that by killing himself is not only a major sin but he's also making it worse for himself on the other side,the world beyond, when he finally gets there.
***MAJOR SPOILER*** Deeply touching final with the by now getting it all together Tuh making peace,in a cemetery no less, with himself and a startled Captain Barris, who was there burying his wife Betty, as well as the NYPD who staked out the place in them expecting him to show up there! Tuh is not there to murder but forgive Captain Barris for all the hurt that he cause him. With a breaking into tears Barris returning the favor in him asking from Tuh for forgiveness for his own responsibly in his brothers deaths in a real tearjerker of an ending of a "Naked City" episode.
- sol-kay
- Oct 23, 2012
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 1.33 : 1