Night and Fog in Japan ( Nihon no yoru to kiri )

Night and Fog in Japan (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Nihon no yoru to kiri
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1960 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Nagisa Oshima

Written By:
Toshirô Ishido
Nagisa Oshima

Actors:
Miyuki Kuwano ..... Reiko Harada
Fumio Watanabe ..... Haruaki Noda
Hiroshi Akutagawa ..... Asst. Prof. Udagawa
Shinko Ujiie ..... Mrs. Udagawa
Akiko Koyama ..... Misako Nakagawa
Kei Sato ..... Nakamaki
Rokko Toura ..... Higashiura

Synopsis:

Widely regarded as the most personal of director Nagisa Oshima's three 1960 films, Night and Fog in Japan centers around a gathering of former student activists, all of which protested the signing of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. Preferring to let go of the past, the old protestors had regrouped for a mutual friend's marriage, and maintained a peaceful atmosphere until the last of their old companions arrives and immediately begins hurling accusations. Now a fugitive, the party crasher denounces the party as a charade and claims that those in attendance betrayed their own ideals in exchange for personal security. Before long, all pretenses of a happy reunion are thrown aside, and the marriage is reduced to an all-out brawl. Oshima himself was once a student protestor, and the film served as an open display of his disappointment with Japan's left-wing political movement meant to illustrate how those who once united in hopes of making a positive chance in Japanese society have denigrated into bickering, weak-minded versions of their former selves.

Some former and some still active members of the left-wing student organisation of the Zengakuren meet at a wedding in the autumn of 1960, a few months after demonstrations against the American-Japanese military alliance. The harmony of the celebration is soon broken: flashbacks reveal the former relationships between the protagonists.

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