Oshima in Words and Images
January 15, 2013
Film Info
- Japan
- 1967
- 99 minutes
- Black and White
- 2.35:1
- Japanese
A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the death drive in Japanese youth culture.
Credits
| Director | Nagisa Oshima |
| Screenplay | Nagisa Oshima, Mamoru Sasaki and Takeshi Tamura |
| Producer | Masayuki Nakajima |
| Editing | Keiichi Uraoka |
| Cinematography | Yasuhiro Yoshioka |
| Music | Hikaru Hayashi |
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