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starring: Masahiko Tsugawa, Kayoko Honoo, Isao Sasaki, Fumio Watanabe, Kamatari Fujiwaradirected by: Nagisa Oshima
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303029283
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6303029280
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 3422
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 02, 1985
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Rating: - Gets better with repeat viewings
This is a really good film once you get used to the charcters and understand a little about Oshima. There are definitely no heroes here. But you come to admire Hanako's tenacious struggle to survive in the changing underworld of Osaka. What sticks with you afterwards is the incredible beauty of the shots which always seem to take place at dawn or dusk when the sky looks incredible. Combined with the bleak industrial landscape of the city, its haunting.
This is my second favorite Oshima ... Read More
Rating: - The Sun's Burial
Oshima Nagisa has become one of Japan's premiere directors and The Sun's Burial is one of his earliest and strongest films. The movie centers on a woman named Hanako who a prostitute and cutthroat entrepreneur trying to survive the Kawagasaki slum of post-war Osaka. Oshima shows, without pretention, the heart of the slum and the gangs that control it. One of the gangs is a right-wing group lead by a man known only as The Agitator and another gang is lead by a man named Shin. Both of their storylines ... Read More
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