"Eijanaika"
1981
Directed by Shohei Imamura

Called an "historical documentary", Eijanaika is "a sprawling, superb-looking period piece charged with Imamura's characteristically fevered eroticism and underplayed black humor. As spectacle, it's stunning in its dynamism and the last half-hour presents one of the most libidinal depictions of a mass uprising since Eisenstein restaged the storming of the Winter Palace. As in Vengeance Is Mine, Imamura imbues the cruelty with virtuoso ferocity and an appalling, visionary beauty" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). Japanese with English subtitles. 151 minutes.

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