Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
"Nihon no yoru to kiri" (original title)

Director:

Nagisa Ôshima

Writers:

Toshirô Ishidô, Nagisa Ôshima

Stars:

Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview:
Miyuki Kuwano	...	Reiko Harada
Fumio Watanabe	...	Haruaki Nozawa
Masahiko Tsugawa	...	Ôta
Hiroshi Akutagawa	...	Prof. Udagawa
Kei Satô	...	Sakamaki
Rokko Toura	...	Higashiura Toura
Shinko Ujiie	...	Mrs. Udagawa
Ichirô Hayami	...	Takumi
Takao Yoshizawa	...	Katsuhiko Nakayama
Akiko Koyama	...	Misako Nakagawa

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

intellectual | box office flop | leninism | wedding cake | stalinism | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

9 January 1985 (USA)

Also Known As:

Night and Fog in Japan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Shôchiku Eiga

Technical Specs

Runtime:

107 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The movie is made up of only 45 takes. The average shot length is 142.7 seconds.

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Connections

Referenced in 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1995)

User Reviews

Personal disputes in a Marxist movement

A record of a time in the university-based 'Zengakuren'(?)(thanks meganeguard)this.

Economic and direct, this is almost two hours cut out of a student Marxist movement and its feuds. The setting is a wedding between two members which is happy and well until one comes from a demonstration with low attendance, the protesters were outnumbered by police, and fires out accusations against the bride and groom for falling out of the movement in favour of family idyll. From then on the disputes hail down in machine gun fashion ripping up 10 year old history which in fact doesn't stop, but just gets faded down at the end of the movie! Everyone is dead serious and strong-willed. We watch them with distance, not sympathizing with any. The settings in which this event takes place are as good as invisible. For great dramatic effect they get toned down by turning off the light and spotlighting the central characters (of which there are a few) instead. All is theater-style. Making it a play instead would make little difference.

Specialist tackle, as this is exclusively about this movement and its key characters this is for those interested in leftist movements only!