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Director:
Writers:
Toshirô Ishidô (writer)
Nagisa Ôshima (writer)
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Release Date:
2 January 1985 (USA) more
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Plot:
In Osaka's slum, youth without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Masahiko Tsugawa ... Shin, leader of gang
Kayoko Honoo ... Hanako
Isao Sasaki ... New gang member Takeshi
Fumio Watanabe ... Yosehei
Kamatari Fujiwara ... Batasuke, peddlar
Tanie Kitabayashi ... Chika, Batasuke's wife
Junzaburô Ban ... Yotsematsu, Hanako's father
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Jun Hamamura ... Goro Murata
Bokuzen Hidari ... Peddlar
Kyu Ito ... The 'horse'
Yûsuke Kawazu ... Gang member
Asao Koike ... Black Glasses
Hôsei Komatsu ... Clochard
Ichirô Nagai ... The 'lance'
Koji Nakahara ... Gang member
Eitarô Ozawa ... Agitator
Kei Satô ... Sakaguchi, doctor
Gen Shimizu ... Ohama, leader of Ohamagumi gang
Kunie Tanaka ... Thief
Kunie Tominaga ... Raped girl
Rokko Toura ... Masa, vize leader
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Sun's Burial (USA) (video title)
Tomb of the Sun
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Runtime:
87 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:15 (2008)
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7 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Best Oshima film in my opinion, 16 July 2000
Author: byron early

This movie manages to undo every romantic notion of poverty and life in the slums anyone might have. The characters here are not noble, or unfortunate and they are not victims. They are simply all cruel animals clawing on each other to get to the top of the jar. Every character's face is continually covered with sweat and if they are not afflicted with some deformity you can usually see the bones under their meager flesh. There is little distinction of charcters in the film. It is like an entymologists film of an ant-colony. Oshima's best film in my opinion, it doesn't suffer from the misogyny of "Cruel Story of Youth." or the try hard porno universe of "In the Realm of the Senses". These things are combined with a brutal realism that makes this film the most surreal and shocking, but without trying to be.

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