The Gate

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The Gate (2014 film)

The Gate (French: Le Temps des aveux) is a 2014 French-Belgian-Cambodian drama film directed by Régis Wargnier, based on the memoir of the same name by François Bizot. The film debuted at the Telluride Film Festival on 29 August 2014. It was also screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014.

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The Gate (novel)

The Gate (門, Mon) is a Japanese novel written in 1910 by Natsume Sōseki. It was a commercial success when published in Japan and has been translated into English by Francis Mathy. A new translation by William F. Sibley, with an introduction by Pico Iyer, was published by New York Review Books in 2012.

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The Gate concerns a middle-aged married couple, Oyone and Sosuke, who married for love in their student days. The couple first suffered exclusion from society due to their ill-advised marriage – it was revealed (very obliquely in the course of the novel) that Oyone was the wife of a former friend. As the novel opens, they languish in ennui because they have no children, and Sosuke has to focus on his career. Oyone's ill health and a visit from Sosuke's younger brother provoke a familial crisis which becomes the central story. Oyone feels her childlessness was a punishment sent by the gods for abandoning her previous husband.

Thematically and by the author's own reckoning, The Gate is the third in a trilogy of novels begun by Sanshiro (1908) and And Then (それから, Sorekara) (1909). All three novels deal with the themes of self-knowledge and responsibility – on the one hand, accountability to society, and on the other, responsibility to one's own emotions. However, the three novels do not share characters.