Fighting Elegy (Criterion Collection)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 11, 2005
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Hideki Takahashi | |
Performer: | Yusuke Kawazu, Mitsuo Kataoka & Junko Asano | |
Directed by | Seijun Suzuki | |
Screenwriting by | Kaneto Shindo |
Entertainment Reviews:
73%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,160
Rating: 4/5 --
must have read as a work from the heart in 1966, and it still does today
Filmcritic.com
[Suzuki] choreographs the action and crowd scenes with flair.
Sight and Sound
Rating: B- --
Cool but superficial and disjointed.
Reno Gazette-Journal
[R]uthlessly funny...
Entertainment Weekly
Japanese director Seijun Suzuki explores motifs of obsession with a singular energy and focus.
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Product Description:
A political satire from Japanese cult director Seijun Suzuki that is as raw and vicious as the outrageous and violent imagery that generally permeates his films. A boarding student falls madly in love with his host family's beautiful daughter. Unable to express his emotions or work out his sexual frustrations, his hormonal energy takes him to the streets where he begins brawling with youth gangs. His adolescent sexual release comes through his fighting and soon the young student gains a reputation for his untamed nature. This leads him to a showdown with a notorious ultra right wing militarist.
Using the adolescent sexual anxiety as a symbol to mock fascist ideology, Suzuki's 1966 film is one of his most perversely humorous, extreme, and socially conscious works.
Using the adolescent sexual anxiety as a symbol to mock fascist ideology, Suzuki's 1966 film is one of his most perversely humorous, extreme, and socially conscious works.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 70,932
- UPC: 037429202722
- Shipping Weight: 0.26/lbs (approx)
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