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Shiiku (1961)

Drama | 105 minutes
3,60 5 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 105 minuten

Alternative title: The Catch

Country: Japan

Directed by: Nagisa Ôshima

Stars: Rentaro Mikuni and Jun Hamamura

IMDb score: 6,8 (331)

Releasedate: 22 November 1961

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Shiiku plot

Shiiku, based on a novella by Kenzaburo Oe, is set during the final days of World War II. A black American is captured by the population of a remote village and becomes the plaything of the various powers within the traditional community.

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klara

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A small, village community essentially stuck with capture (The Catch)

of a black American, and friction gradually arises (Disagreements

regarding the treatment of the American) with ultimately painful consequences

little of which is rational to blame on the American. Of

an increasing desire for a 'lynching' of the American. It is mentioned in the film

various emotions played with gut feelings of revenge and hatred and where

the simple population is portrayed as quite primitive, sometimes even childish

On. There is certainly something touching and poignant about that, against the background of

Second Remote War. Ultimately with a rather bitter ending that makes you think.

An unsavory but actually not even incomprehensible solidarity among the

population. In fact, it probably also comes down to the fact that the captured

Americans are mainly seen as an unwanted intruder. People actually didn't know any

advise. And the film, with varying moods, has a penetrating atmosphere.

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