Born in 1970 into an acting family -- his father is butoh master Akaji Maro and his brother is rising star Nao Omori -- Tatsushi Omori served as an assistant director for Junji Sakamoto and Kazuyuki Izutsu before working for producer/director Genjiro Arato on "Akame Shijuha-taki Shinju Misui" in 2003 -- and getting his first chance to direct on another Arato production, "Germania no Yoru (Whispering of the Gods)" He took time to talk to The Japan Times.
"Germania no Yoru" is set in a Catholic monastery, but it didn't strike me as a critique of Catholicism per se.
My aim is not to criticize the Catholic Church. Instead, I use it more as a metaphor for Japanese society. The world of the monastery is a microcosm of the larger world outside. I don't consider ["Germania"] to be a "Catholic film."