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Shôhei Imamura

Vengeance Is Mine (Fukushu suru wa ware ni ari)

Director Shôhei Imamura Music (original) Shinichirô Ikebe Cast Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Chôchô Miyako
139' - 1979 - Crime, Drama - Format: 35mm - Dialogue: English, Japanese
For this film Imamura selected a name from police lists of one of the 30,000 missing persons, enlisted the aid of this man's fiancée, and embarked on a search for him, interviewing his friends, his relations, his employers, and his acquaintances, and filming the results with hidden cameras. Imamura's representatives in these interviews were an actor named Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and the missing man's fiancée, a girl named Yoshie. Then the director found himself faced by a totally unexpected development. It soon became apparent that Yoshie was losing interest in the search, and before long we find her declaring her love for the actor, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi.

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Credits

Directors

Shôhei Imamura

Music (original)

Shinichirô Ikebe

Cast

Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Chôchô Miyako

Scenario

Masaru Baba, Ryûzô Saki, Shunsaku Ikehata

Director of Photography

Shinsaku Himeda

Editors

Keiichi Uraoka

Producers

Kazuo Inoue

More info

Dialogue

English, Japanese

Countries of production

Japan

Screenplay based on

Vengeance Is Mine (Ryuzo Saki)

Year

1979

Filmography

Shôhei Imamura
Stolen Desire (1958), Nishi Ginza Station (1958), Endless Desire (1958), My Second Brother (1959), Pigs and Battleships (1961), The Insect Woman (1963), Intentions of Murder (1964), The Pornographers (1966), A Man Vanishes (1967), Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970), Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975), Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Why Not? (1981), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), Zegen (1987), Black Rain (1989), The Eel (1997), Dr. Akagi (1998), Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001), September 11 (2002)

Technical Specs

Format
35mm