Cinematheque: The Films of Nagisa Oshima

In this reworking of the traditional Japanese tale of double suicide, a paranoid young man on the run from local crime bosses falls into a torturous relationship with a woman who just wants someone to make love to her, no strings attached. Oshima’s rarely screened film is set in a highly stylized criminal underworld and centers on what critic Tony Rayns calls “the ‘death impulse’ in Japanese society.” Japanese with English subtitles. Japan, 1967, 35mm, b/w, 98 min.