27° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

HAKUCHU NO TORIMA

VIOLENCE AT HIGH NOON
by Nagisa Oshima
Country: Japan
Year: 1966
Duration: 99'


VIOLENCE AT NOON
Inspired by a crime with sexual
connotations. An elliptical, narrative
plot creates a majestic parabola which
became one of the most successful films
of Oshima, the lucid investigator of the
human soul. Four unforgettable
characters, a visually disturbing style
and one of his favorite themes:
intellectual idealism as opposed to
ignorant, vital pragmatism.

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

regia/director
Nagisa Oshima
soggetto/story
dal racconto omonimo
di/from the short story of the
same title by Taijun Takeda
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Takeshi Tamura
fotografia/cinematography
Akira Takada
montaggio/film editing
Keiichi Uraoka
musica/music
Hikaru Hayashi
suono/sound
Hideo Nishizaki
interpreti e personaggi/
cast and characters
Saeda Kawaguchi
(Shino Shinozaki),
Akiko Koyama
(Matsuko Kura),
Kei Sato (Eisuke Oyamada),
Rokko Toura (Genji Huiga),
Fumio Watanabe
(l’ispettore/
Inspector Haraguchi)
produttore/producer
Masayuki Nakajima
produzione/production
Sozosha
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