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Violence at Noon

Original title: Hakuchû no tôrima
  • 1966
  • 1h 39m
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7.1/10
1.1K
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Violence at Noon (1966)
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Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

  • Director
    • Nagisa Ôshima
  • Writers
    • Taijun Takeda
    • Tsutomu Tamura
  • Stars
    • Saeda Kawaguchi
    • Akiko Koyama
    • Kei Satô
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    1.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Nagisa Ôshima
    • Writers
      • Taijun Takeda
      • Tsutomu Tamura
    • Stars
      • Saeda Kawaguchi
      • Akiko Koyama
      • Kei Satô
    • 11User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    Saeda Kawaguchi and Akiko Koyama in Violence at Noon (1966)
    Saeda Kawaguchi and Kei Satô in Violence at Noon (1966)
    Akiko Koyama and Kei Satô in Violence at Noon (1966)
    Saeda Kawaguchi and Kei Satô in Violence at Noon (1966)
    Violence at Noon (1966)
    Violence at Noon (1966)

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    Saeda Kawaguchi
    Saeda Kawaguchi
    • Shino Shinozaki
    Akiko Koyama
    Akiko Koyama
    • Matsuko Koura
    Kei Satô
    Kei Satô
    • Eisuke Oyamada
    Rokkô Toura
    Rokkô Toura
    • Genji Hyuga
    Fumio Watanabe
    Fumio Watanabe
    • Inspector Haraguchi
    Taiji Tonoyama
    Taiji Tonoyama
    • School director
    Teruko Kishi
    • Shino's grandmother
    Hôsei Komatsu
    Hôsei Komatsu
    • Shino's father
    Hideo Kanze
    Hideo Kanze
    • Inagaki, husband of the raped woman
    Hideko Kawaguchi
    • Matsuko's mother
    Narumi Kayashima
    • Jinbo, teacher
    Ryôko Takahara
    • Raped woman
    Sen Yano
    • Mayor
    • Director
      • Nagisa Ôshima
    • Writers
      • Taijun Takeda
      • Tsutomu Tamura
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      The movie is made up of 1,508 takes. The average shot length is 4.5 seconds.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Man Who Left His Soul on Film (1984)

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    Two women deal with the fact that a man in their lives is a cereal rapist.
    I really don't know why Oshima's early films have taken so long to become available in the U.S. They are spectacular! I suppose because their thematic content is so specific to the Japan of the post-war "reconstruction" at the hands of the Americans. As radical, contemporary, and at times experimental as Oshima's films from this era were, his landscapes, to my eye, more closely resemble the tradition of Japanese landscape-painting than those of Kurosawa or Mizoguchi. In this film, the past is captured in just such painterly, deep-focus majesty, with dizzying zooms thrown in just to leave you disoriented. The present is soft, blurry, almost indiscernible at times. I'm interpreting the political content of this violent, lude, nasty story to deal with Japan's inability to live up to its WWII atrocities, or from a different perspective, the ease with which it forgave itself. I admit that I don't see how the last scenes fit into that interpretation, but that doesn't make those scenes any less haunting.
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    • treywillwest
    • Aug 27, 2011

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    • Release date
      • July 15, 1966 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • 白晝的惡魔
    • Production company
      • Sozosha
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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