Tattooed Life
Action and Anarchy: The Films of Seijun Suzuki
November 6 - 17, 2015
Set in the 1930s, Tattooed Life is the story of two brothers—one a yakuza, the other an art student—on the run and the first film to earn Suzuki a warning from his Nikkatsu bosses about “going too far.”
Set in the 1930s, Tattooed Life is the story of two brothers: Kenji, an art student, and Tetsu, who is working as a yakuza to help pay for Kenji’s tuition. When a hit job goes horribly wrong, the brothers flee. They end up finding work in a mine—and falling in love with the owner’s wife and daughter. But will Tetsu’s gang tattoos reveal the brothers’ secret past? The first film to earn Suzuki a warning about “going too far” from his Nikkatsu bosses, Tattooed Life contains one of his most iconic and audacious violations of film form: a final fight scene in which the floor suddenly and illogically disappears, and the action is filmed from below the actors’ feet. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
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