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Eclipse 1960: 狂熱の季節

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That’s a title technique I haven’t seenbefore.

Wow, this is really something. I don’t think I’ve seen anything this chaotic from a Japanese director… I guess it’s a supercharged reaction to the media reports about nihilistic post-Rebel Without A Cause teenagers?

But with jazz instead of rock.

Amazing camera movement.

(And Breathless, I guess.)

This is beyond deranged. These guys run over a man and kidnap a woman, and then one of the guys rapes that woman (but then it turns ambiguous, because she, of course, because it’s 1960), and…

I think the point of this movie is that rape is fun.

Oops.

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Sounds logical to me.

This movie is way less racist than Japanese movies usually are.

Anyway, I’m not sure I’d argue that this is a “good movie”… but it’s fantastic.

The Warped Ones. Koreyoshi Kurahara. 1960.

This blog post is part of the Eclipse series.

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