Vengeance Is Mine (Criterion Collection)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 15, 2007
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ken Ogata | |
Performer: | Rentarô Mikuni, Mayumi Ogawa & Nijiko Kiyokawa | |
Directed by | Shôhei Imamura |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
In a way, if we're tracking influences, Imamura probably had a little impact on the Coen Brothers' misanthropic masterpieces.
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Film Freak Central
Rating: 6/10 --
Although the film doesn't feel as groundbreaking now as it likely once had, Ogata's nuanced performance shouldn't be missed.
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Under the Radar
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Gripping and haunting, it's a strikingly timeless film.
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Shadows on the Wall
as messy as murder itself, Vengeance is Mine maps out the darker corners of a nation in transition and unwilling to confront its past directly.
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Eye for Film
The director allows the subtlest of gestures to reveal his character's personalities and feelings. He is helped by remarkable actors...
Sight and Sound
[Director Shohei] Imamura is a poet of the harsh, a tour guide to horrific mystery.
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Washington Post
In Vengeance Is Mine, Imamura seeks to demarcate a position outside of all of the conventional Japanese identity, and so his viewpoint, like Enokizu, evades capture.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Product Description:
Based on police records and a prize-winning book by Ryuzo Saki, VENGEANCE IS MINE chronicles the terrifying crime spree of Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), a hollow man with no kokoro, which means either "self" or "heart" in Japanese. A dissatisfied public relations employee, Enokizu kills several people for no good reason and manages to evade the police, even though his face is plastered like a celebrity's image across the country. But the film is also about his father and his wife, who have a secret of their own and try to live with the knowledge of the terrible deeds Enokizu has committed.
Director Shohei Imamura created the film after making several documentaries in the early 1970s and becoming dissatisfied with the narrative constraints of the form. Seemingly a straightforward crime drama, VENGEANCE IS MINE incorporates several surrealistic touches, including an ending in which the laws of gravity are suspended. Ogata's performance as Enokizu transformed him into a star in Japan. Mitsuko Baisho's turn as Enokizu's taboo-breaking, long-suffering wife recalls the protean female characters common in Imamura's previous films, including THE INSECT WOMAN.
Director Shohei Imamura created the film after making several documentaries in the early 1970s and becoming dissatisfied with the narrative constraints of the form. Seemingly a straightforward crime drama, VENGEANCE IS MINE incorporates several surrealistic touches, including an ending in which the laws of gravity are suspended. Ogata's performance as Enokizu transformed him into a star in Japan. Mitsuko Baisho's turn as Enokizu's taboo-breaking, long-suffering wife recalls the protean female characters common in Imamura's previous films, including THE INSECT WOMAN.
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- UPC: 715515023528
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