Directed by:
Shôhei ImamuraScreenplay:
Masaru BabaCinematography:
Shinsaku HimedaComposer:
池辺晋一郎Cast:
Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentarô Mikuni, Frankie Sakai, 倍賞美津子, 石堂淑朗, Kazuo Kitamura, Akira Hamada, Mari Nishio, ミヤコ蝶々, 辻萬長, 根岸季衣, Shôhei Hino, 加藤嘉, 白川和子, Tamaki Katsura (more)Plots(1)
Based on the true story of Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) and his murderous rampage which sparked a 78-day nationwide manhunt, Shôhei Imamura's disturbing gem Vengeance Is Mine won every major award in Japan on the year of its release. Both seducing and repelling with its unusual story and grisly humour, mamura uncovers a seedy underbelly of civilised Japanese society. Unfolding through multiple flashbacks, Ogata delivers a career-defining performance as a day-labourer and smalltime con-artist who, after killing two of his co-workers, embarks on a psychopathic spree of rape and murder. Eluding the police and public, Japan s infamous King of Criminals passes himself off as a Kyoto University professor, only to become entangled with an innkeeper and her perverted mother. Five years in the making, Vengeance Is Mine transcends the imitations of run-of-the-mill criminal studies by presenting a portrait of a killer imbued with a poignant, tragic banality. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Ken Ogata
Japan
Best movies:
Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi (1989)
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Mayumi Ogawa
Japan
Best movies:
Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)
Farewell to the Ark (1984)
The Demon (1978)
Rentarô Mikuni
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Harakiri (1962)
Zatoichi at Large (1972)
Frankie Sakai
Japan
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series)
47 Ronin (1962)
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
倍賞美津子
Japan
Best movies:
Ballad of Narayama (1983)
The Geisha (1983)
Kagemusha (1980)
石堂淑朗
Japan
Best movies:
Death by Hanging (1968)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
The Eel (1997)
Kazuo Kitamura
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
High and Low (1963)
Akira Hamada
Japan
Best movies:
Kill! (1968)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Bayside Shakedown (1998)
Mari Nishio
Japan
Best movies:
Dolls (2002)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Overprotected Kahoko (2017) (series)
ミヤコ蝶々
Japan
Best movies:
Samaritan Zatoichi (1968)
A Cheerful Girl (1957)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
辻萬長
Japan
Best movies:
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
G.I. Samurai (1979)
根岸季衣
Japan
Best movies:
When Marnie Was There (2014)
Switching - Goodbye Me (2007)
Bunny Drop (2011)
Shôhei Hino
Japan
Best movies:
Owl's Castle (1999)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
The Boy and the Heron (2023)
加藤嘉
Japan
Best movies:
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Immortal Love (1961)
A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
白川和子
Japan
Best movies:
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
After Life (1998)
Black Rain (1989)
Tamaki Katsura
Best movies:
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Rape! 13th Hour (1977)
Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976)
清川虹子
Japan
Best movies:
Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Unknown Father (1964)
Taiga
Japan
Best movies:
Under the Open Sky (2020)
Sweet Bean (2015)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Kikuo Kaneuchi
Japan
Best movies:
Sandakan hačibanšokan bókjó (1974)
The Pitfall (1962)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)