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Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)

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Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)

Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)
HDTVRip | MKV | 984 x 720 | AVC @ 5985 Kbps | 96 min | 4.35 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Japanese, (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Arthouse | Japan

Based on the novel by Kazumi Takahashi. Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look. So they swtiched their positions. Murase investigates the case he was involved. Ochiai feels rather comfortable in the world of yakuza. They begin to feel sympathy for each other.

IMDB 7.9/10 from 34 users

Director: Kazuo Kuroki
Writer: Yoshiyuki Fukuda (screenplay), Kazumi Takahashi (novel)
Actors: Yôsuke Enomoto, Tatsumi Hijikata, Eiko Horii, Hideo Kanze
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 96 min

We tried distributing the film along the same route that Live Your Own Way had set up. We faced a lot of opposition from the Communists because of the Marathon Runner Incident. And even though Cuba is one of the most communist countries around, there was resentment that I had bypassed the Communist Party to work directly with the Cubans. Now, I had a bad reputation with both the right and the left. But finally, one or two places in Tokyo agreed to screen it. It was really wretched having to screen in those conditions, and we lost money almost everywhere. Yomiuri Hall agreed to screen the film, and I can remember being surrounded by radical student women. They spat on me, and I can still feel their spit landing on my face as they screamed at me, “You traitor director! How could you take that anti-revolutionary kid to Cuba? How could you make him a hero? You idiot!” It was a pitiful feeling. (laugh) The left really deplored me, saying that my main character had “sold out Guevara” and that I was “counter-revolutionary.” Later, when I was sinking in my debts and being harassed by loan sharks and the yakuza, I thought this whole scenario would make a perfect yakuza film. That became Evil Spirits of Japan.


Kazuo Kuroki takes up the baton from Matsumoto's 1969 Funeral Parade of Roses and applies the experimental strategies used in Matsumoto's new wave classic to a conventional yakuza genre film with striking results. Kuroki continues the trend set by Funeral Parade of Roses in seeing the audio accompaniment as a tool in itself rather than merely content assist onscreen events. This theme continues throughout its running time with sixties folk rock segments intercut in the film, which subtly comment on the story they interrupt. The camera style is as eclectic, mixing freely staged, symbolic shots with hand-held action sequences with classic, formal studio shots. The lighting reflects the basic theme of dissolving opposites, ranging from the pitch black to overexposed white creating an ambigous world, where good and bad becomes so muddled that it can't no longer been alloted to darkness and light.

Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)

Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)

Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)

Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)

Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)

Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)

Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)

Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)


Evil Spirits of Japan / Nippon no akuryo (1970)


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