The Sleeping Beast Within
Action and Anarchy: The Films of Seijun Suzuki
November 6 - 17, 2015
A businessman vanishes upon his return from an overseas trip, and his daughter hires a reporter to help find him. This proto–Breaking Bad moves to an energetic pulp-fiction beat all the way to its spectacular conflagration of an ending.
A businessman vanishes upon his return from an overseas trip, and his daughter hires a reporter to help find him. When the father reappears, the reporter becomes suspicious and starts digging deeper, uncovering a secret world of heroin smuggling and murder—all tied up with a mysterious Sun God cult. This proto–Breaking Bad moves to an energetic pulp-fiction beat all the way to its spectacular conflagration of an ending. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
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