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 »
- Japan
- 1965
- 91 minutes
- Color
- 2.35:1
- Japanese
SYNOPSIS: A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in one libidinous rush—fully expecting to be tracked down and killed. Oshima’s dip into the waters of the popular soft-core “pink film” genre is a compelling journey into excess.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Atsushi Wakizaka | Katsuo Nakamura |
| Shoko | Mariko Kaga |
| Hitomi | Yumiko Nogawa |
| Shizuko | Masako Yagi |
| Keiko | Hiroko Shimizu |
| Mari | Toshiko Higuchi |
Credits
| Director | Nagisa Oshima |
| Screenplay | Nagisa Oshima |
| From a novel by | Futaro Yamada |
| Cinematography | Akira Takada |
| Art direction | Yatsutaro Kon |
| Editing | Keiichi Uraoka |
| Music | Joji Yuasa |
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Eclipse Series 21:
Press Notes
Press Notes: Oshima’s
Outlaw Sixties
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 »
