1967 | Japan | Fiction

Muri shinjû: Nihon no natsu (Japanese Summer: Double Suicide)

  • Japanese 99 mins
  • Director | Nagisa Oshima
  • Writer | Nagisa Oshima, Mamoru Sasaki, Takeshi Tamura
  • Producer | Masayuki Nakajima

STATUS: Released

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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.

Anarchy Rebellion Youth Absurdity Chaos
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The Criterion Collection
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