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Film: Vengeance is Mine (Fukushu suru wa ware ni ari)
April 14, 2003 (Monday)
Film: Vengeance is Mine (Fukushu suru wa ware ni ari)
Director: Shohei Imamura (1979, color, 140 min.)
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building), Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
7:45 PM
One of the most strikingly original films of the modern cinema, Vengeance Is Mine is an “eclectically horrifying portrait of a psychopathic criminal named Iwao Enokizu…[The film] makes every other film on the In Cold Blood theme look like child’s play,” wrote Tom Allen in The Village Voice. Enokizu (Ken Ogata) becomes a suspect in the murder of two men who work for the government tobacco monopoly. A nationwide dragnet is set up to capture him, but for 78 days he travels throughout Japan committing fraud, cheating women and taking numerous lives.
Photo: Photofest
– Facets Multimedia
Japan Academy Award, Best Film; Kinema Jumpo, Best Film
Part of “Exacting Revenge: A Series of Eight Japanese Films”
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