Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
– A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangst..
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.
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Release Date:
02 Sep 1967
Language:
Japanese
Director:
Nagisa Ôshima
Writer:
Mamoru Sasaki, Tsutomu Tamura, Nagisa Ôshima
Main Actors:
Keiko Sakurai, Kei Satô, Tetsuo Ashida, Yoshiyuki Fukuda
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.
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Criterion Collection
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