"Vengeance is Mine"
1979
Directed by Shohei Imamura

One of the most strikingly original films of the modern cinema, Vengeance Is Mine is an "eclectically horrifying portrait of a psychopathic criminal named Iwao Enokizo…(the film) makes every other film on the In Cold Blood theme look like child's play," wrote Tom Allen in The Village Voice. Enokizu becomes suspect in the murder of two men who work for the government tobacco monopoly. A nationwide dragnet is set up to capture him, but for 78 days he travels throughout Japan committing fraud, cheating women and taking numerous lives. Japanese with English subtitles.
112 minutes.