- 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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On Oshima
March 15, 2011
Fans of Nagisa Oshima will be interested to hear that critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has posted on his blog his entire 2008 Artforum essay “The Sun Also Sets,” which was also reprinted in his 2010 book Goodbye Cinema Read more »
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 preoccupations have been Read more »







