Gate of Flesh
Original version in Japanese: Nikutai no monSubtitled in English
Directed by Seijun Suzuki
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JAPAN | 90 minutes | 1964
Post-war Japan: prostitutes are forming gangs as a survival strategy. Beware the one with feelings, and woe unto the man who gets close. A masterpiece!
Seijun Suzuki makes his own Roman Porno (the infamous genre out of the Nikkatsu studios). The result is a masterful work in equal measures provocative and painful, in which he settles his scores with the army, the war and Japan itself. While authority is intimidating, nothing can contain it now. Especially not a codified genre like erotic film. Starring Jô Shishido.
Programs
Friday October 13, 2017
Program #24614:30
Cinéma du Parc 1
Seijun Suzuki
No biography
distribution and credits
- Screenplay Gorô Tanada, Taijirô Tamura
- Interpreter Jô Shishido, Kôji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa, Tomiko Ishii
contact
- Nikkatsu
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