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I, the Executioner

Minagoroshi no reika

Japan

1968

90 Min
Black and White
2.35:1
Japanese
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DIR Tai Katô

SCR Tadashi Hiromi, Tai Katô, Yôji Yamada, Haruhiko Mimura

DP Keiji Maruyama

CAST Chieko Baishô, Yuki Kawamura, Sanae Nakahara, Ran Fan O, Makoto Satō, Kin Sugai, Junko Toda

ED Shizu Ôsawa

MUSIC Hajime Kaburagi

SOUND Hiroshi Nakamura

Locarno (Hommage à Kato Tai)

Synopsis

Up there with Oshima’s Violence at Noon and Imamura’s Vengeance Is Mine as one of Japan’s most disturbing anatomies of a serial killer, Kato’s shattering film eschews suspense (it confronts male violence against women head-on from its very first shot) in favour of mystery. What links the murders of five women with the suicide of a 16-year-old delivery boy? Plodding cops (one with a bad case of piles) investigate, and solarised flashbacks eventually provide a denouement, but the near metaphysical ending ensures that the mystery somehow lingers. Kato anchors it in location-shot observation of Tokyo’s quotidian realities, which makes the unorthodox approach to questions of sexual politics all the more bracing. —Time Out

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