Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

Name: Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1967-09-02
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6.90
Cast: Yoshiyuki Fukuda, Tetsuo Ashida, Keiko Sakurai, Kei Satô

– A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangst..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

6.90 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 38 Minutes

Release Year:

1967

Original Name:

心中天網島

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967) - Also known as 心中天網島

A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young 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.

Styles:

Tense, Surreal, Offbeat, Stylized, Psychological, Realistic, Serious, Atmospheric

Story Timeline:

20th Century

Producing Country:

Japan

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan, Asia

Genre:

Crime, Drama

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967) - Trailer

Release Date:

02 Sep 1967

Language:

Japanese

Directed by:

Nagisa Ôshima

Story Written By:

Nagisa Ôshima, Mamoru Sasaki, Tsutomu Tamura

Main Actors:

Yoshiyuki Fukuda, Tetsuo Ashida, Keiko Sakurai, Kei Satô

Plot:

Over the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.

Production Company:

Criterion Collection

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

6.9/10