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...tiny Uta-jima (Song Island) fish for octopus. The women dive in the numbing offshore waters for abalone. The islanders' lives are far from a song. But when they rise from the earthen floors of the dark, dank-smelling huts, they see the morning sun dancing on the sea, and stately clouds crossing the horizon "like ancient gods." Teen-age Shinji is content to follow this age-old pattern of a life both dangerously and harmoniously close to nature. When he prays in the garden of the Yashiro shrine, he asks, "God, let the seas be calm, the fish...
...reef world ("Most living creatures, including ourselves, live on other creatures," reminds the narrator), there are no more or less evil villains, only keener appetites and larger gullets. Best comic is a baby sea turtle who hungrily attacks the film's true hero, a shy, sensitive octopus many times the turtle's size. The assault only bores the octopus. Secrets ends with a wild battle between the octopus and the movie's most sinister actor, a moray eel. Result: a draw, with the myopic eel's keen sense of smell fouled up by the wounded octopus...
According to the April 23 Science section, the subtle squids discharge a cloud of ink to escape enemies. Presumably the octopus and cuttlefish employ the same method of self-defense; they are not the only ones...
...performance last week an inflated nine-foot lobster and a cardboard octopus of grand design decorated the stage of Cincinnati's Music Hall as schoolchildren and proud parents filed in to hear the Cincinnati Symphony do Sea Secrets, a Cantata for Speakers, Chorus and Orchestra...
Edited by Conductor Johnson and Music Teacher Perso. Secrets was scaled down to a trim 23 minutes, highlighted by The Ballad of Mort, the Whale, Lobster Dante, Ballet of the Octopus and Sea Horse Gallop, a tap dance in 6/8 time, as well as Susan Freiberg's Minuet of the Shrimp. The local critics disdained to cover the premiere, but Conductor Johnson thought Sea Secrets good enough to be shown to a music publisher. Said he: "It is beautiful in its whimsicality...