Presented By: Center for Japanese Studies
Tokijiro of Kutsukake – Lone Yakuza (Japanese Film Screening)
CJS Summer Film Series
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Directed by Tai Kato, 1966, 90 min.
A dead man leaves behind his wife and son with no one to care for them, until his killer’s ironic sense of responsibility attempts to fill the void. Comedy, blood-spray violence, and melodrama mixed with Kato’s repertoire of stylistic shooting techniques accompany this story of a drifting lone yakuza.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies and the Japan Foundation.
Directed by Tai Kato, 1966, 90 min.
A dead man leaves behind his wife and son with no one to care for them, until his killer’s ironic sense of responsibility attempts to fill the void. Comedy, blood-spray violence, and melodrama mixed with Kato’s repertoire of stylistic shooting techniques accompany this story of a drifting lone yakuza.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies and the Japan Foundation.