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"The Sun's Burial" is a mesmerizing, frenetic, and profoundly disturbing portrait of Japan's lost, postwar generation. Using fragmented narrative, an ensemble cast of characters, and frequent camera movement, Nagisa Oshima reflects the pervasive sense of nihilism and chaos in the...

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Weitere Verfasser: Ôshima, Nagisa (RegisseurIn), Kawamata, Takashi (Kameramann/frau), Tsugawa, Masahiko (SchauspielerIn), Honoo, Kayoko (SchauspielerIn), Kawazu, Yûsuke (SchauspielerIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Roma Raro Video 2005
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Zusammenfassung:"The Sun's Burial" is a mesmerizing, frenetic, and profoundly disturbing portrait of Japan's lost, postwar generation. Using fragmented narrative, an ensemble cast of characters, and frequent camera movement, Nagisa Oshima reflects the pervasive sense of nihilism and chaos in the aftermath of war. Visually, Oshima depicts Japan's loss of national, cultural, and spiritual identity by juxtaposing a lurid color palette against the modern, highly westernized setting of Osaka slums and the red-light district. In essence, the saturation of colors, stifling heat, and repeated shots of the sun on the horizon serve as a visual perversion of the idealized image of old Japan - the land of the rising sun - symbolically embodied by the red sun against a white background of the national flag. "The Sun's Burial" is a relevant examination of hopelessness and moral decay - an elegy for the obsolescence of cultural heritage in a modern, and increasingly materialistic world - a provocative indictment of the systematic self-destruction of a national soul. [www.filmref.com]
Beschreibung:[DVD] (88 Min.) mono