Eclipse Series 21:
Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties
By May 20, 2010
DRIVEN TO DESTRUCTION Nagisa Oshima was a destructive force in Japanese cinema—and he wouldn’t have had it any other way. Intent on exploding taboos Read more »
SYNOPSIS: Violence at Noon concerns the odd circumstances surrounding a horrific murder and rape spree. In a twist, the film is as much about the two women who protect the violent man—his wife and a former victim—as it is about him. Containing more than two thousand cuts and a wealth of inventive widescreen compositions, this coolly fragmented character study is a mesmerizing investigation of criminality and social decay.
| Shino Shinozaki | Saeda Kawaguchi |
| Eisuke Oyamada | Kei Sato |
| Matsuko Koura | Akiko Koyama |
| Genji Hyuga | Rokko Toura |
| School director | Taiji Tonoyama |
| Inspector Haraguchi | Fumio Watanabe |
| Shino’s grandmother | Teruko Kishi |
| Director | Nagisa Oshima |
| Cinematography | Akira Takada |
| Editing | Keiichi Uraoka |
| Music | Hikaru Hayashi |
| Producer | Masayuki Nakajima |
| Screenplay | Tsutomo Tamura |
| From the story by | Taijun Takeda |
| Art direction | Jusho Toda |
By May 20, 2010
DRIVEN TO DESTRUCTION Nagisa Oshima was a destructive force in Japanese cinema—and he wouldn’t have had it any other way. Intent on exploding taboos Read more »
By May 11, 2010
The great Japanese actor Kei Sato passed away last week; he was eighty-one years old. You may not recognize Sato’s name, but if you’ve seen a Japanese film in the past fifty Read more »
May 28, 2010
The teeming talent and copious output of Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima may have resulted in a body of work that’s stylistically mercurial, but his thematic Read more »