"The Sun's Burial"
1960
Directed by Nagisa Oshima

"Provocative... Visually beautiful, eerily cool." - Vincent Canby, New York Times. Oshima's most blatantly amoral and extravagantly violent version of the juvenile delinquency drama, set in a world of rival teenage gangs, pimps and prostitutes. Set in a hellish Osaka where an exquisitely cruel femme fatale vies for control of the area's most profitable business with the gangs. "Ruthless... Unfolds in a netherworld of teenage punks. Tough girls wearing pointy brassieres vie for Cinemascope screen space with brooding pimps in stingy-brimmed hats and Hawaiian shirts." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice. Japanese with English subtitles. Color.  87 minutes.