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Set in the post-war slums of Osaka, Oshima's follow-up and companion piece to NAKED YOUTH, follows the lives and fates of the denizens of this hellish ghetto. Pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, vagrants, hustlers and gangsters struggle to survive amidst the poverty and decay of 1950's Japan. Unflinching in it's portrayal of life in these slums, the film goes beyond a documentary-style realism to achieve a garish, lurid Cinemascope aesthetic that is at once repulsive and yet mesmerising. It's a pitiless and dispassionate portrait of a living hell that lurks behind the facade of a prosperous new Japan, a place where everything - food, sex, even blood - is simply a commodity to be stolen and sold. While the title itself represents the symbolic end of the Japanese Empire, THE SUN'S BURIAL is also infused with Oshima's own growing militant politics. It is a protest not only against the (then) American military control of Japan, but also of the country's loss of national, cultural, and spiritual identity. It is the director's disgusted mockery of the nation's self-image as the 'land of the rising sun' and makes this film one of the director's finest and most powerful works.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Production Notes, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: The epidemic of juvenile delinquency in the mean streets of a Tokyo slum is depicted in this sordid story of sex and violence. The group is dwindled by suicide, murder, gang warfare and accidents as they engage in arson and gunplay. Plagued by drug and alcohol problems, the members of the gang head down the dead-end street to oblivion, despair and certain death. The film attempts at the beginning to give some semblance of a stance on morality before the depraved characters begin the inevitable downward spiral. ...The Sun's Burial ( Taiyo no hakaba ) ( Tomb of the Sun )
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The image of a blood red sun slowly dropping from the sky dominates this film, it is in tandem with the decline of the central characters into immoral survival. Post war Japan is shown here as a post apocolyptic wasteland where everything is a commodity, something to be sold in an attempt to live and eat another day. One character continually laments the end of the Japanese empire and predicts a resurrection of the vanishing culture and rules which he felt gave the country strength. The loss of face seems more important than lives. This film shows a shamed Japan.
Even those things most dear are hawked. Women, identity, even blood. The strongest and most immoral thrive while those with weakness or concience stumble and fall. The message is most definitely cynical and no real ray of light manages to break through.
The performances are outstanding, the imagery beautiful and shocking at the same time, and so very symbolic. This is less sureal than some Oshima, a good place to start, if you are strong.
Even those things most dear are hawked. Women, identity, even blood. The strongest and most immoral thrive while those with weakness or concience stumble and fall. The message is most definitely cynical and no real ray of light manages to break through.
The performances are outstanding, the imagery beautiful and shocking at the same time, and so very symbolic. This is less sureal than some Oshima, a good place to start, if you are strong.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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A film without any nod to moral foundational myths it is a sleek smart dive into inner thought deprivation. Unrecognisable in terms of modern Japan it travels to Kamagasaki. This is a walled off slumworld in Osaka, kept away from prying eyes by Meiji Emperor decree. This is a proto brutal slum dog millionare without the central theme of happiness as salvation.
Shot with artistic hand held vision, it mixes emotional brutale with solid concrete to create an early industrial masterpiece. The Spanish guitar themes simply batters the camerawork into the surreal.
The Imperial Sun melts along with belief as the gang embark on a number of money making schemes, selling workers blood to the cosmetic industry, battering lovers in the park for their wordly goods, running brothels. Meanwhile betrayal lust, fear and revenge stalk the movie with fervour. The hot sweat of dirty unwashed bodies reeks from the screen. These are tales of no redemption making James Dean's forays into existential angst seem weak and flacid.
Murder, death, rape, incest, cuckoldry are all casually portrayed as sub themes. The play has the tenacity of Shakespeare stripped of any moral compass and meaning. Nihilism has never had a more beautiful celluloid vision.
Shot with artistic hand held vision, it mixes emotional brutale with solid concrete to create an early industrial masterpiece. The Spanish guitar themes simply batters the camerawork into the surreal.
The Imperial Sun melts along with belief as the gang embark on a number of money making schemes, selling workers blood to the cosmetic industry, battering lovers in the park for their wordly goods, running brothels. Meanwhile betrayal lust, fear and revenge stalk the movie with fervour. The hot sweat of dirty unwashed bodies reeks from the screen. These are tales of no redemption making James Dean's forays into existential angst seem weak and flacid.
Murder, death, rape, incest, cuckoldry are all casually portrayed as sub themes. The play has the tenacity of Shakespeare stripped of any moral compass and meaning. Nihilism has never had a more beautiful celluloid vision.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
dissapointing release with a video transfer that is very weak and not even anamorphic. i would not have bought the dvd if i knew it was this bad.
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