The film is a relentlessly savage fable about a Japanese mountain village whose inhabitants accidentally capture a black American airman only a few weeks before the 1945 capitulation. The ‘prisoner of war’ acts as a catalyst, bringing out all the repressed aggression and latent political conflicts beneath the tradition-girded surface of the community. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.0/10 | |
Released: | November 22, 1961 | |
Runtime: | 105 min | |
Genres: | Drama War | |
Companies: | Palace Film Production | |
Cast: | Rentarô Mikuni Yôko Mihara Akiko Koyama Masako Nakamura | |
Crew: | Nagisa Ôshima Toshio Matsumoto Toshirô Ishidô Kenzaburô Oe Tsutomu Tamura Shômei Tômatsu | |
duuuuuuuuuude : I really really liked this.