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Outlaw-Matsu Comes Home (1973)
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
Documentary, TV Movie · 52m
“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found several of them who had remained in Thailand. Two years later, I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home. During the filming, my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his ‘vicious brother.’ I was shocked, and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene. By the next morning, to my relief, Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother. But I couldn’t have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking.” —Shôhei Imamura
Cast
Shōhei Imamura
Crew
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Director of Photography
- Masao Tochizawa
- Producer
- Matsuo Takahashi
Details
- Original title
- 無法松故郷に帰る
- Release date
- 1973-01-01
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary, TV Movie
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan