Night and Fog in Japan (1960)

Original title

日本の夜と霧

Directed by

Nagisa Ōshima

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows former student activists who reunite for a wedding. They confront unresolved conflicts from their involvement in leftist movements, as memories of protests and ideological betrayals resurface.

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What happens

Night and Fog in Japan (日本の夜と霧, Nihon no Yoru to Kiri) is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. It deals with the contemporaneous Zengakuren opposition but also evokes the 1960 protests against the Anpo treaty; this political content is related to the particular approach of memory and interpersonal dynamics of social movements in the film. The film is often further interpreted as the weakness of the Japanese left throughout the late 1940s and 1950s, particularly as a result of Stalinist influence, in which many ideas within the film that could represent the Comintern are heavily critiqued. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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