Double Suicide: Japanese Summer

1967 [JAPANESE]

Crime / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 62%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 960 960

firearm killing spree allegorical 1960s

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Plot summary

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by athanasiosze 7 / 10

7/10. Recommended.

This is the second Nagisa Ôshima i have watched, after "Death by Hanging". DBH is a superior movie but i liked this, too. It's difficult to recommend it though and even more, to describe it. Obviously, it's mostly an allegory about post WW2 Japan. Characters are Symbols, there is this girl who desperately keeps asking from every man she meets, to have sex with her. There is a student who desperately wants to harm anyone. And many more, for instance the leading character who keeps trying to find someone to murder him.This is something like a nihilistic black comedy, absurd at times, hilarious and simultaneously bleak, if that's possible. Oshima wants to show the frustration/nihilism/anger of Japanese society back then, but not only that: I believe that the gorl symbolizes the force of Life, meaning the people who want to carry on, leaving the wounds of the past behind. And it's not coincidental that all the men keep ignoring her, even though she tries her best, to attract them.Movie is still enigmatic to me, maybe my interpretations are all wrong. In any case, i love watching movies like this, but i don't think it's great. There were some scenes that distract me, too impenetrable to keep me invested. But still, it's a good movie and i liked it a lot.
Reviewed by tedg

Solid Shadows with Conflicting Death Wishes

I know a few of this man's films. They are among the richest experiences I know, but I was surprised at how deeply this one worked on me.The surprise comes in part from knowing how specific his target audience was. I am the right generation but the wrong decade and culture. I recently encountered the effect with "Naisu no mori" which took some significant shifting on my part to put me in the right place.Oshima is politically radical, violently iconoclastic and deeply critical of what he sees as a broken Japanese culture. In this film he targets sensibilities that would be hard for even Japanese viewers to understand today. I didn't even try, and simply relegated all the broken souls I saw to a generalized brokenness. Perhaps that makes the film better, because it allows us to experience the technique of the thing more directly.The story doesn't matter except that it throws an eighteen year old girl with a "screw loose" in with a suicidal AWOL soldier and a group of ragtag gangsters. Some of the action takes place in an abandoned futuristic city, but the core of the film is in a bunker of some sort. It is a terrific set and one wonders how in the world many of the shots were made. Some of them pan the space, showing walls that could not have been there at the start of the shot.It is a complex space, concrete, with sometimes deep, sometimes close walls that seem to change. The floors and ceilings have different heights. There are stone altar slabs with spring water coming from roughly hewn holes. Sometimes the walls and floors have handcarved human-shaped niches. The lighting always seems natural but the sources would be physically impossible. The space reminded me of Tarkovsky.Oshima says he hates Ozu and Kurosawa, but the cameras of both clearly is used and extended here. The poses are formal, the movements of the eye architectural. This film was unknown to me until today, and it replaces Welles' Othello as my go to example of an architectural film. The characters are less people than they are active components of the space. Every action, every perception — ours and theirs — is spatially situated. I loved it. Mind you, this is in spite of missing the social commentary; some would think it was if I were watching a mimed Shakespearean play. But I think this film is in the eye, the space.It is so extraordinary that I am giving it one of my coveted 4 ratings.Ted's Evaluation -- 4 of 3: Every cineliterate person should experience this.
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