Evil Spirits of Japan (1970)
DVD9 Custom | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:36:12 | 7,44 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (added)
Genre: Drama
DVD9 Custom | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:36:12 | 7,44 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (added)
Genre: Drama
Director: Kazuo Kuroki
Based on the novel by Kazumi Takahashi. Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look. So they swtiched their positions. Murase investigates the case he was involved. Ochiai feels rather comfortable in the world of yakuza. They begin to feel sympathy for each other.
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Review, but only in French :(… but you can use google-translator :)
Interview with Kuroki Kazuo
We tried distributing the film along the same route that Live Your Own Way had set up. We faced a lot of opposition from the Communists because of the Marathon Runner Incident. And even though Cuba is one of the most communist countries around, there was resentment that I had bypassed the Communist Party to work directly with the Cubans. Now, I had a bad reputation with both the right and the left. But finally, one or two places in Tokyo agreed to screen it. It was really wretched having to screen in those conditions, and we lost money almost everywhere. Yomiuri Hall agreed to screen the film, and I can remember being surrounded by radical student women. They spat on me, and I can still feel their spit landing on my face as they screamed at me, “You traitor director! How could you take that anti-revolutionary kid to Cuba? How could you make him a hero? You idiot!” It was a pitiful feeling. (laugh) The left really deplored me, saying that my main character had “sold out Guevara” and that I was “counter-revolutionary.” Later, when I was sinking in my debts and being harassed by loan sharks and the yakuza, I thought this whole scenario would make a perfect yakuza film. That became Evil Spirits of Japan.Excerpt from Interview with Kuroki Kazuo
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Director (in Japanese only)
- Interview with Director (21:26) (in Japanese only)
- Two English subs track: for dialogues and for songs
- Image gallery
- Trailer
- Biography
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