Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967·Japan·98 min.
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A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal 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.
DirectorNagisa Ôshima
MusicHikaru Hayashi
CinematographyYasuhiro Yoshioka
CastKeiko Sakurai·Kei Sato·Tetsuo Ashida·Yoshiyuki Fukuda·Hideo Kanze·Hosei Komatsu·Shunsuke Mizoguchi·Bunya Ozawa·Masakazu Tamura·Taiji Tonoyama·Rokko Toura
Original titleMuri shinjû: Nihon no natsu