Ogata Ken, Ogawa Mayumi, Baishō Mitsuko, Mikuni Rentarō. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Based on the novel by Saki Ryūzō. Special features: "Imamura" excerpt from a 1999 video interview with the Directors Guild of Japan, Shohei Imamura, discusses Vengeance is mine with Kunio Takeshige and Koichi Benitani; Theatrical trailer; Teaser.
Summary:
A true crime story about Iwao Enokizu, self-styled "King of criminals." Director 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, perverse, and at times funny tale of the primitive coexisting with the modern.
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