During the late 60s and early 70s, famed screenwriter and director Kaneto Shindō wrote a series of scripts about World War II’s legacy on Japan and the Japanese psyche for a few of those decades’ greatest directors. These included one story about the war’s lingering pains and injustices with Kenji Fukasaku’s solemn and politically fiery 1972 “Under the Flag of the Rising Sun”, another set during the thick of the conflict with Kihachi Okamoto’s graphic and harrowing (if messy) “Battle of Okinawa” and the earliest of them, Seijun Suzuki’s 1966 “Fighting Elegy” which is starkly opposite from from the rest in not being serious at all — at least outwardly.
“Fighting Elegy” screened at Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Festival 2019
1935 Okayama. A militarized boys’ middle school. Catholic student Kiroku (Hideki Takahashi) finds himself sharing the same Catholic boarding house with the sweet and innocent Michiko (Junko Asano), who...
“Fighting Elegy” screened at Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Festival 2019
1935 Okayama. A militarized boys’ middle school. Catholic student Kiroku (Hideki Takahashi) finds himself sharing the same Catholic boarding house with the sweet and innocent Michiko (Junko Asano), who...
- 9/22/2019
- by Wally Adams
- AsianMoviePulse
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