Set in the post-war slums of Osaka The Sun's Burial follows the lives and fates of the denizens of this hellish ghetto. Pimps prostitutes drug addicts vagrants hustlers and gangsters struggle to survive amidst the poverty and decay of 1950's Japan. Unflinching in it's portrayal of life in these slums the film goes beyond a documentary-style realism to achieve a garish lurid Cinemascope aesthetic that is at once repulsive and yet mesmerising. It's a pitiless and dispassionate portrait of a living hell that lurks behind the facade of a prosperous new Japan a place where... everything - food sex even blood - is simply a commodity to be stolen and sold. [show more]
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Legendary Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's follow-up and companion piece to 'Naked Youth' (1960). Set in the slums of 1950s Osaka, the film follows the lives of the pimps, prostitutes, junkies, tramps and thieves who inhabit this ghetto. Oshima delivers a pitiless portrait of the hellish realities that lurk beneath the surface of the prosperous new Japan. It's not only a protest against the post-war American military presence, but an indictment of the country's loss of national and cultural identity. Filmed in lurid, gaudy Cinemascope, the film is generally accepted as one of the director's finest and most powerful works.
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