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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, aka Night of the Killer / Muri shinju: Nihon no natsu Director: Nagisa Oshima, Country: Japan, Release: 1967, Runtime: 98 NEW 35MM PRINT One of Oshima’s least-known films—and not to be confused with the Shinoda’s Double Suicide—Oshima’s film “centers on the death impulse in Japanese society,” says critic Tony Rayns. Terrified that his crime-world bosses are out to get him, Otoko (Kei Sato, in a remarkably unnerving performance) decides to arrange his own death, and that his killer should be a woman. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Nejiko wants to find a man willing to make love to her with no strings attached. These two hapless souls inevitably cross paths and rapidly become the subjects of each other’s fantasies. A reflection of what Oshima sees as the insincerity of Japan’s ritualized violence, such as the seppuku suicide ceremony, his characters’ drives and passions are so outsized, so outlandish, that they burst the carefully confined practices that are supposed to channel and control their passions. Critic Noel Burch has also described the film as Oshima’s preparation for the more mature, more directly political works that would follow in the next several years.

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