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Vengeance Is Mine

Vengeance Is Mine

1979, Movie, 2h 20min

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family—into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime tale, VENGEANCE IS MINE bares humanity’s snarling id.

Country: Japan

Director:

Shōhei Imamura

Cast:

Rentaro Mikuni,

Taiji Tonoyama,

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9.0

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Critic William Thomas

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8

...this is a dark treat.

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Critic Roger Ebert

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10

A Japanese masterpiece about a killer without a cause.

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Vengeance Is Mine was released in theaters on October 17, 1979.