27° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

TAIYO NO HAKABA

THE SUN'S BURIAL
by Nagisa Oshima
Country: Japan
Year: 1960
Duration: 87'


THE SUN’S BURIAL
Eccentric Hanako lives in an Osaka
slum and speculates on the blood
of poor people. She asks for help from
Shin, the leader of a gang, but the
man wants to divvy up the profits
in an unfavorable way for the girl.
Other criminals intervene and the feuds
begin… A macabre elegy of the slums,
with echoes of genre cinema and
Brecht’s proletariat fairy tales.

Biography

film director

Nagisa Oshima

Nagisa Ōshima (Tamano, Japan, 1931 - Fujisawa, Japan, 2013) is considered one of the maestros of Japanese cinema. An exponent of “nuberu bagu,” his films depict the contradictions of Japanese society since WWII, in which growing materialism is flanked by strict observance of centuries-old rules, generating oxymorons and irresolvable conflicts. His most important films include Cruel Story (1960); The Sun’s Burial (1960); Night and Fog in Japan (1960); The Ceremony (1971); In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a true sensation because of its explicit sexual content; Empire of Passion (1978), which won Best Director at Cannes; and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983), which received a BAFTA for Best Score. His final film was Taboo (1999), presented in competition at Cannes. In 2009, the Torino Film Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to him.

FILMOGRAFIA

Seishun zankoku monogatari (Racconto crudele della giovinezza, 1960), Taiyō no hakaba (Il cimitero del sole, 1960), Nihon no yoru to kiri (Notte e nebbia in Giappone, 1960), Etsuraku (Il godimento, 1965), Muri shinju: Nihon no natsu (Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, 1967), Koshikei (Death by Hanging, 1968), Gishiki (La cerimonia, 1971), Ai no korīda (Ecco l’impero dei sensi, 1976), Ai no bōrei (L’impero della passione, 1978), Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Furyo, 1983), Max mon amour (Max amore mio, 1986), Gohatto (Tabù - Gohatto, 1999). 

Cast

& Credits

Director: Oshima Nagisa.
Screenplay: Oshima Nagisa, con la collaborazione di Ishido Toshiro.
Director of photography: Kawamata Ko (Scope/Eastmancolor).
Luci: Sato Isamu.
Art director: Uno Koji.
Editor: Uraoka Keiichi.
Music: Manabe Riichiro.
Sound: Kurita Shujuro.
Director assistant: Ishido Toshiro.
Cast and characters: Honoo Kayoko (Hanako), Sasaki Isao (Takeshi, nuovo membro della banda), Tsugawa Masahiko (Shin, membro della banda "Shin ei kai"), Kawazu Yusuke (Yasu, membro della banda), Ban Junzaburo (Yosematsu, padre di Hanako), Watanabe Fumio (Yasehei), Fujiwara Kamatari (Batasuke, rigattiere), Ozawa Eitaro (Doranya, l'agitatore), Kitabayashi Tanie (Chika, moglie di Batasuke), Koike Asao ("Occhiali colorati"), Rashomon ("UomoGrande", sottoproletario), Hamamura Jun (Murata Goro, ex infermiere dell'esercito), Sato Kei (Sakaguchi, medico), Toura Mutsuhiro (Masa, vicecapo della banda), Nakahara Koji (Tatsuo, membro della banda), Yoshino Kenji (Ponta), Shimizu Gen (il capo della banda di Ohama), Nagai chiro ("La Torre"), Ito Kio ("Cavallo"), Komatsu Hoshi (il mendicante), Tanaka Kunie (il ladro), Tominaga Yuki (la studentessa violentata), Hidari Bokuzen (becchino)
Production company: Ikeda Tomio per Shochiku Ofuna.
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