Vengeance Is Mine (film)

Fukushû suruwa wareniari
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Directed by	Shohei Imamura
Produced by	Kazuo Inoue
Written by	Masaru Baba, Ryuzo Saki (novel)
Starring	Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho
Music by	Shinichirô Ikebe
Cinematography	Sinsaku Himeda
Editing by	Keiichi Uraoka
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date(s)	1979
Running time	140 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Vengeance Is Mine (Japanese title: 復讐するは我にあり, fukushū suru wa ware ni ari) is a 1979 film directed by Shohei Imamura, based on the book of the same name by Ryuzo Saki. It depicts the true story of serial killer Akira Nishiguchi (Iwao Enokizu in the film).

It stars Ken Ogata as Enokizu, with Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho, Nijiko Kiyokawa and Chocho Miyako. The film won the 1979 Best Picture Award at the Japanese Academy Awards, and won Best Screenplay at the Yokohama Film Festival, where Ken Ogata also won Best Actor.^[1]

Contents 1 Plot 2 References 3 Sources 4 External links

Plot

A thief, murderer, and lady charmer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police.

Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story of the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family into a cold and perverse portrait of the primitive coexisting with the modern.

The film covers topics close to heart in Imamura's three-hour epic, The Profound Desire of the Gods back in 1968, which also delved into human behaviour in extremis. Over a decade later, the release of Vengeance Is Mine touches upon the moral squalor of moden Japan during and after the war, too. Its historical context is of a country that oozes self-hating guilt, which indirectly manifests itself in the form of a serial killer's maturation and anti-career.

References

Sources

• Buehrer, Beverley (1990). "Vengeance Is Mine (1979) Fukusho sure wa ware ni ari". Japanese Films: A Filmography and Commentary, 1921-1989. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland. pp. 225–229. ISBN 0-89950-458-2. 

External links

• "復讐するは我にあり (Fukushū suru wa ware ni ari)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1979/dc001130.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-18. 
• Vengeance is Mine at the Internet Movie Database
• Fukushû suruwa wareniari at AllRovi
• Vengeance is Mine essay by Jasper Sharp
• Vengeance Is Mine :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies review by Roger Ebert

Films directed by Shōhei Imamura Stolen Desire (1958) Nishi Ginza Station (1958) Endless Desire (1958) My Second Brother (1959) Pigs and Battleships (1961) The Insect Woman (1963) Unholy Desire (1964) The Pornographers (1966) A Man Vanishes (1967) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968) History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970) Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975) Vengeance Is Mine (1979) Eijanaika (1981) The Ballad of Narayama (1983) Zegen (1987) Black Rain (1989) The Eel (1998) Dr. Akagi (1998) Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) 11'9"01 September 11 (2002)

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