Tôkyô Sensô Sengo Hiwa (1970)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 94 minuten
Alternative titles: The Man Who Left His Will on Film / A Secret Post-Tokyo War Story / He Died After the War / 東京戦争戦後秘話 映画で遺書を残して死んだ男の物語
Country:
Japan
Directed by: Nagisa Ôshima
Stars: Kazuo Goto, Emiko Iwasaki and Sukio Fukuoka
IMDb score:
6,9 (995)
Releasedate: 27 June 1970
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Tôkyô Sensô Sengo Hiwa plot
Young filmmaker Motoki's camera is stolen by a fellow student during leftist student demonstrations. He follows the perpetrator and witnesses his suicide. The police quickly arrive and confiscate the camera. At least, that's the story he tells when he wakes up at home. His left-wing activist friends have a different view of what happened. When the police release the camera, he considers the film in the camera to be the will of the dead videographer. Together with his ex, they look for the meaning of the film, which consists exclusively of ordinary street scenes.
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hamidgoodarzi
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A complex and layered film by the director of the new wave of Japanese cinema "Nagisa Oshima" at the end of the 60s and the beginning of the 70s, which analyzes cinema and its reflection with an unconventional narrative and with a political background. The black and white of the film has been able to be effective in creating an atmosphere suitable for the content. This movie should be watched carefully and analyzed from different angles. The most obvious theme of the film is definitely the analysis of cinema, and the director wants to dig deep and the nature of cinema and from there examine the cinema and make us think. The film is structurally and thematically different from its predecessors in Japan. It seems that the new wave cinema of the 60s in France and Japanese new wave cinema have subtle similarities and similar effects.
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