.The less said, the better about the last year – 2020. It started with an…
Tag: Japanese New Wave
“In many ways, Pale Flower (‘Kawaita hana’, 1964) was Shinoda’s first masterpiece, a film that…
Shohei Imamura, a very politically conscious film-maker and one of the key figures of Japanese…
The way director Oshima satirizes the government officials may make viewers to accuse Oshima of treating them as farcical puppets rather than human characters. It is a tone, which may alienate a few, but I feel it’s the best way to observe the cogs of imperialist society, whose so-called ‘good intentions’ are just a hypocritical veil.
The vision of chaotic evil and violent nihilism in “Vengeance is Mine” discomfits a viewer like no other film in the cinematic history. Iwao Enokizu isn’t condemned nor his murderous activities elevated to a myth, and even the society that created him isn’t bluntly blamed. What we gaze at is a pure, dark, subversive force that offers no meaning.
