Zegen1987
Both directed by Shōhei Imamura, and both starring Ken Ogata and Mitsuko Baisho
- Criterion Collection
- Spine №384
- Connections
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Synopsis
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family—into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime tale, VENGEANCE IS MINE bares humanity’s snarling id.
