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The Sun's Burial
Directed by
Nagisa Ōshima
1960
87m
Crime
,
Drama
6.9
60%
78%
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In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
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Where to Watch The Sun's Burial
Criterion Channel
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Cast of The Sun's Burial
Masahiko Tsugawa
Shin, leader of gang
Kayoko Honoo
Hanako
Isao Sasaki
New gang member Takeshi
Fumio Watanabe
Yosehei
Kamatari Fujiwara
Batasuke, peddler
Tanie Kitabayashi
Chika, Batasuke's wife
Junzaburō Ban
Yotsematsu, Hanako's father
Yūsuke Kawazu
Yasu
Kei Satō
Sakaguchi, doctor
Rokkō Toura
Masa, vize leader
Kunie Tanaka
Thief
Asao Koike
Black Glasses
Eitarō Ozawa
Jun Hamamura
Shinjiro Matsuzaki
Koji Nakahara
Kenji Yoshino
Gen Shimizu
Ichiro Nagai
Akio Miyajima
Kenzō Tanaka
Yuhei Sorori
Hōsei Komatsu
Yoshito Yamaji
Yuki Tominaga
Bokuzen Hidari
Nagisa Ōshima
Director / Writer
Toshirō Ishidō
Writer
Tomio Ikeda
Producer
The Sun's Burial Ratings & Reviews
The New Leader
Manny Farber
With the resilience missing, the flip motions only accentuate the supineness of the actors who, while trying for the shrill terror of a Goya drawing, resemble a subway vendor's jiggling dolls.
Esquire Magazine
Dwight MacDonald
It seemed to me a monotonous series of beatings up slung together without either motivation or cinematic form.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Oshima offers an unsettling portrait of an amoral and ruined postwar Japan.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
The sun is the crimson one in the imperial flag, given a scalding funeral in Nagisa Oshima's implacable view of postwar scavenging
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