Chieko Matsubara

  • Seijun Suzuki – Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai aka Our Blood Will Not Forgive (1964)

    1961-1970AsianClassicsJapanSeijun Suzuki

    Though Suzuki created it in the midst of his stylistic breakthrough, «Our Blood Will Not Forgive» has never received the same amount of attention as other films he made around the same time. Nikkatsu icons Hideki Takahashi and Akira Kobayashi star as brothers — one a gangster, the other an ad man — who unite to avenge their yakuza father’s death eighteen years before. The film features a bold use of colour; an absurdist concluding gunfight; and, in one memorable scene, an impressively illogical use of rear projection as the brothers argue in a car while ocean waves rage around them.Read More »

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