Based on the true story of Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) and his murderous rampage which sparked a 78-day nationwide manhunt Shohei Imamura's disturbing gem Vengeance Is Mine won every major award in Japan on the year of its release. Both seducing and repelling with its unusual story and grisly humour Imamura uncovers a seedy underbelly of civilised Japanese society. Unfolding through multiple flashbacks Ogata delivers a career-defining performance as a day-labourer and smalltime con-artist who after killing two of his co-workers embarks on a psychopathic spree of rape... and murder. Eluding the police and public Japan's infamous King of Criminals passes himself off as a Kyoto University professor only to become entangled with an innkeeper and her perverted mother. Five years in the making Vengeance Is Mine transcends the limitations of run-of-the-mill criminal studies by presenting a portrait of a killer imbued with a poignant tragic banality. [show more]
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