Vengeance Is Mine - Criterion Collection
by Shohei Imamura
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Actor: Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Mitsuko Baisho, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Rentaro MikuniDirector: Shohei Imamura
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
Movie Reviews of Vengeance Is Mine - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: This is a masterpiece!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was glued to the screen for more than two hours when I watched Vengeance is Mine. This is now one of my all-time favorite films (and one of Roger Ebert's "great movies"). I am having difficulty conveying why I loved this film so much. Aside from the great cinematography, story, directing, and acting, there is something else special here. It is one of those extremely rare films which I knew I was going to love as soon as it started. It continued to get better and better with each minuet. Maybe it was the sheer originality of this Japanese masterpiece... Anyway, I would urge every film-lover to see "Vengeance is mine" as soon as possible.
Summary of Vengeance Is Mine - Criterion Collection
Like all great Shohei Imamura protagonists Vengeance Is Mine's Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) lurks on the margins of Japanese society. A thief murderer and charming lady-killer Iwao is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story of the seventy-three-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family into a cold perverse and at times diabolically funny tale of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime case Vengeance Is Mine bares mankind's snarling id. System Requirements:Running Time: 140 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?NR UPC:?715515023528 Manufacturer No:?CC1691DDVDLong before Vengeance Is Mine, American directors like Jules Dassin (Naked City) invested the procedural with journalistic detail. Similarly, Japan's Shohei Imamura (The Eel) lays out all the facts for the viewer's delectation: names, dates, times of death, and methods of execution, i.e. "skull crushed with blunt object." (In the DVD booklet, Michael Atkinson compares him to journalist-turned-filmmaker Samuel Fuller.) The murderer, however, is no mystery. Imamura introduces us to the unrepentant Iwao Enokizu (Mishima's Ken Ogata) in the opening sequence. He then backtracks to the clutch of murders the con man committed in the early 1960s. At the same time, he keeps an eye on the cops as they follow his trail, while flashing back to Enokizu's rebellious youth. Based on Ryuzo Saki's true-crime novel, Vengeance Is Mine further deviates from the neo-realist noirs of old by withholding judgment. That isn't completely surprising, since it was preceded by nine years in which Imamura worked exclusively in the documentary realm. Vicious killer that he is, Enokizu is outgoing rather than downbeat. Further, his past includes a weak-willed father and an unfaithful wife, but that information doesn't make him sympathetic. Nor does it explain his crimes. Enokizu is an empty vessel for the audience to fill as it sees fit. As Imamura acknowledges in "My Approach to Filmmaking" (also part of the booklet), "I love all the characters in my films, even the loutish and frivolous ones." Vengeance Is Mine is a must for fans of Japanese cinema and unconventional thrillers alike. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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