1979 | Japan | Fiction

Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari (Vengeance Is Mine)

  • Japanese English 140 mins
  • Director | Shohei Imamura
  • Writer | Masaru Baba
  • Producer | Kazuo Inoue

STATUS: Released

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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.

Crime Psychopath TrueStory Japanese Brutal
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The Criterion Collection
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