Kaette kita yopparai (1968)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Nagisa Oshima

Writers:

Masao Adachi (writer)
Nagisa Oshima (writer)

Release Date:

30 March 1968 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan...

Plot Keywords:

Slapstick | Surrealism

Cast

Kazuhiko Kato	...	O-noppo 'The big one'
Norihiko Hashida	...	Chibi, 'The smallest one'
Osamu Kitayama	...	Chu-noppo 'the small one'
Kei Sato	...	Korean soldier
Mako Midori	...	Nechan, 'the Beautiful'
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Masao Adachi	...	Policeman
Cha Dei-dang	...	Kim Fhua, Korean student
Hosei Komatsu	...	Fisherman
Taiji Tonoyama	...	Old Lady
Rokko Toura
Takashi Ueno	...	Policeman
Fumio Watanabe	...	Dokumushi

Also Known As:

Three Resurrected Drunkards

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Brazil:18 (Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival)

Company:

Sozosha

First of all Godard doesn't have two d's in the middle

Second of all Oshima never worked for him.

Most important of all this film stars the great Japanese pop group The Folk Crusaders. Imagine The Beatles making an experimental film. it would look something like this.

Oshima is concerned here, as he was in "Death By Hanging" made the same year, with Japanese anti-Korean prejudice. Socio-political events too complex and multi-faceted to discuss in a forum of this kind are the basis of this film -- which end with the recreation of the most indelible image of the Vietnam war.

The result is a baroque masterpiece that foreshadows Rivette's "Celine and Julie Go Boating."