Violence at High Noon ( Hakuchu no torima ) ( The Daylight Demon )

Violence at High Noon (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Hakuchu no torima
Alternate Title: The Daylight Demon
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
99 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

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

Movie filmed in 1966 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Nagisa Oshima

Written By:
Taijun Takeda
Tsutomu Tamura

Actors:
Hideo Kanze ..... Inagaki, husband of the raped woman
Hideko Kawaguchi ..... Matsuko's mother
Saeda Kawaguchi ..... Shino Shinozaki
Narumi Kayashima ..... Jinbo, teacher
Teruko Kishi ..... Shino's grandmother
Hosei Komatsu ..... Shino's father
Akiko Koyama ..... Matsuko Koura, wife of Eisuke, teacher
Kei Sato ..... Eisuke Oyamada
Ryoko Takahara ..... Raped woman
Taiji Tonoyama ..... School director
Rokko Toura ..... Genji Hyuga
Fumio Watanabe ..... Inspector Haraguchi
Sen Yano ..... Mayor

Synopsis:

The unstable social milieu of postwar Japan is brought into play in Violence at Noon. Two young women, whose lives are far from blissful, are raped by an equally disenfranchised assailant. Director Nagisa Oshima seems to argue that it is the horrid living conditions endured by the rapist and his victims, rather than the rape itself, that should be condemned. Oshima sustains audience interest with his lightning-paced editing, offering some 2000 separate shots in the space of 90 minutes. Violence at Noon begins simply, but ends in so complex a fashion that more questions are raised than can ever possibly be answered. The film's original Japanese title was Hakuchu no Torima.

Drama of sexual aberrations on a country farm in which a labourer who enjoys raping unconscious women takes to murdering them and is betrayed to the police by two who kill themselves.

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