Based on the true story of Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) and his murderous rampage which sparked a 78-day nationwide manhunt Shohei Imamura's disturbing gem won every major award in Japan on the year of its release. Both seducing and repelling with its unusual story and grisly humour Imamura uncovers a seedy underbelly of civilised Japanese society. Unfolding through multiple flashbacks Ogata delivers a career-defining performance as a day-labourer and smalltime con-artist who after
Imamura Shohei, director of this film, was interested in the lower halves of the social order and lower halves of the human body. And in Vengeance is Mine explores both through the hard cold eye of his almost anphropolical camera. As such it is a disturbing movie.
Based on the true story of a murderous rampage an seventy-eight day nationwide man hunt, Vengeance is Mine is equal parts titilating and alienating, repulsive and poignant. Imamura follows the killer on his final days as he staves off the banality of life with women and booze, revelaing the human in the inhuman in occasional poignant moments.
This DVD is internatinally the best release of this important film. The transfer is flawless, the Tony Rayns commentary and accompanying booklet informative, and Alex Cox introduciton mouth watering.
Disturbing, popular - it won every major film award in Japan on its release, and one of the most important and influential films to emerge from Japan in the last thirty years, Vengeance is Mine is a must see. Presented in this stellar DVD, however, Vengeance is Mine is also a must own.
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