A thief, murderer, and charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story, of the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family, into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny tale of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime case, Vengeance Is Mine bares mankind’s snarling id.
Cast
| Iwao Enokizu | Ken Ogata |
| Shizuo Enokizu | Rentaro Mikuni |
| Kayo Enokizu | Chocho Miyako |
| Kazuko Enokizu | Mitsuko Baisho |
| Haru Asano | Mayumi Ogawa |
| Hisano Asano | Nijiko Kiyokawa |
Credits
| Director | Shohei Imamura |
| Producer | Kazuo Inoue |
| Based on the novel by | Ryuzo Saki |
| Screenplay | Masaru Baba |
| Cinematography | Shinsaku Himeda |
| Music | Shinichiro Ikebe |
by Michael Atkinson
May 14, 2007
Define the Japanese new wave however you like—there are innumerable possible launching points, and the name players evident in the fifties and sixties were old and young and in between—but from any juncture, Shohei Imamura was a primary figure and, at the same time, somehow atypical: a thorny . . .
by David Ehrenstein
Jul 11, 1988
Over the years the cinema has given us any number of tales of the criminal underworld, and explorations of the mindsets of murderers. Yet for all that’s come before there’s been nothing quite like Shohei Imamura’s Vengeance Is Mine.Based on one of the most sensational true . . .
