Scent of a Spell (1985) Toshiharu Ikeda, Mari Amachi, Johnny Ohkura, Yuki Kazamatsuri

Scent of a Woman is a 1992 drama film directed by Martin Brest and starring Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell. A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio ("Babyfat"), and spends the next few days ordering him about and generally behaving badly in public. In Rome, Fausto summons a priest to ask for his blessing; in Naples, where Fausto joins a blind lieutenant for drinking and revelry, the two soldiers talk quietly and seriously about "going through with it." Also in Naples is Sara, in love with Fausto, but treated cruelly by him. What do the blind soldiers plan? Can Sara soften Fausto's hardened heart?

Frank is a retired Lt Col in the US army. He's blind and impossible to get along with. Charlie is at school and is looking forward to going to university; to help pay for a trip home for Christmas, he agrees to look after Frank over thanksgiving. Frank's niece says this will be easy money, but she didn't reckon on Frank spending his thanksgiving in New York.

Combining biography and memoir, Shankar Ghosh writes of his father s life as a journalist in his father s own voice. As the longest-serving and the first Indian editor of the second-oldest English newspaper in India, the Pioneer, his father Dr S.N. Ghosh s career matched step with the most profound changes in modern history, including India s coming of age as an independent nation.