Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

99 mins | Drama, Crime | Sept. 2, 1967

A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the “death drive” in Japanese youth culture.

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

99 mins | Drama, Crime | Sept. 2, 1967

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the “death drive” in Japanese youth culture.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Shochiku Co., Ltd., Sozosha
Original title 無理心中 日本の夏
Directors Nagisa Ōshima
Writers Tsutomu Tamura, Mamoru Sasaki, Nagisa Ōshima

Cast

Keiko Sakurai

as Nejiko

Kei Satō

as Otoko

Tetsuo Ashida

as Himeji

Bunya Ozawa

as Matsuyama

Shunsuke Mizoguchi

as Tsukibito

Rokkō Toura

as Television