Night and Fog in Japan
Nagisa Oshima / JP, 1960 / 107 min.
Former comrades from the Communist youth movement ruthlessly settle scores with one another during the wedding of one of them. Oshima's radical, visually daring film was seen as subversive at the time.
Night and Fog in Japan is set during the wedding of two radical ‘comrades’, who during the 1950s had protested against the signing of the security and cooperation treaty between the US and Japan. The celebrations quickly degenerate into bitter recriminations about the ineffectiveness of Japanese left-wing activism in the ’50s.
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Director
Nagisa Oshima
Production year
1960
Country
JP
Original title
Nihon no yoru to kiri
Length
107 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
35mm
Part of
Shochiku 100
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