Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties (Criterion Eclipse Series) [4 DVD9s & 1 DVD5]

Often called the Godard of the East, Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was one of the most provocative film artists of the twentieth century, and his works challenged and shocked the cinematic world for decades. Following his rise to prominence at Shochiku, Oshima struck out to form his own production company, Sozo-sha, in the early sixties. That move ushered in the prolific period of his career that gave birth to the five films collected here. Unsurprisingly, this studio renegade was fascinated by stories of outsiders—serial killers, rabid hedonists, and stowaway misfits are just some of the social castoffs you’ll meet in these audacious, cerebral entries in the New Wave surge that made Japan a hub of truly daredevil moviemaking.

A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in one libidinous rush—fully expecting to be tracked down and killed. Oshima’s dip into the waters of the popular soft-core “pink film” genre is a compelling journey into excess.

Violence at Noon concerns the odd circumstances surrounding a horrific murder and rape spree. In a twist, the film is as much about the two women who protect the violent man—his wife and a former victim—as it is about him. Containing more than two thousand cuts and a wealth of inventive widescreen compositions, this coolly fragmented character study is a mesmerizing investigation of criminality and social decay.

In Oshima’s enigmatic tale, four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path. Oshima’s hypnotic, free-form depiction of generational political apathy features stunning color cinematography.

A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the death drive in Japanese youth culture.

A trio of bumbling young men frolic at the beach. While they swim, their clothes are stolen and replaced with new outfits. Donning these, they are mistaken for undocumented Koreans and end up on the run from comically outraged authorities. A cutting commentary on Japan’s treatment of its Korean immigrants, this is Nagisa Oshima at both his most politically engaged and madcap.

DVDs:
DVD RELEASE: 2010
STUDIO: Criterion Eclipse Series
CATALOG: 21
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 2.35:1
COLOUR: Colour / Black & White
AUDIO: Japanese Dolby Digital mono
SUBTITLES: English (soft)

Extraction:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 4 Full Dual-Layer DVDs & 1 Full Single-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: .ISO (Image)
FILE SIZE: 4.89/5.28/6.03/5.4/3.84GBs
SCANS FILE SIZE (600 DPI PDF): 20MBs
SCANS FILE SIZE (600 DPI TIFF): 981MBs
TOTAL DVD FILE SIZE: 25.44GBs

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Pleasures of the Flesh

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Violence at Noon

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Sing a Song of Sex

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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

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Three Resurrected Drunkards

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