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Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home (1973)
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
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“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found several of them who had remained in Thailand. Two years later, I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home. During the filming, my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his ‘vicious brother.’ I was shocked, and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene. By the next morning, to my relief, Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother. But I couldn’t have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking.” —Shôhei Imamura
Length 52 minutes
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Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/10/2013 | Movie Screen | Digital | Theater | 8 stars |
| (Average) 8 stars |
Viewing Notes
Second documentary in my Imamura triple feature today at Film Center. And my favorite of the three. Fujita returns from Thailand to discover that he was wrongly declared dead and confronts his brother and his friend Morita to determine why they did this. Fireworks ensue and the bad blood comes out. Those moments are incredible.
Sad, somber and more revealing about a family torn apart by the war. Great film.
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