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Vengeance Is Mine ( Japanese: 復讐するは我にあり, Hepburn: Fukushū Suru wa Ware ni Ari) is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Shōhei Imamura, based on the book of the same name by Ryūzō Saki. It depicts the true story of serial killer Akira Nishiguchi, changing the protagonist's name to Iwao Enokizu.
Shōhei Imamura ( 今村 昌平, Imamura Shōhei, 15 September 1926 – 30 May 2006) was a Japanese film director. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction of the lower strata of Japanese society. [1] [2] A key figure in the Japanese New Wave, who continued working into the 21st century, Imamura is the only director from Japan to ...
In 1979, he won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a devout Christian man who is the father of a serial killer in Vengeance is Mine. [27] He became the first individual actor to win three Blue Ribbon Awards, and was called one of the most talented movie stars of the Shōwa era. [28]
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance ( Korean : 복수는 나의 것; lit. " Vengeance Is Mine ") is a 2002 South Korean neo-noir crime thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook. The film stars Shin Ha-kyun as Ryu, a young, deaf-mute factory worker trying to earn enough money for his sister's kidney transplant by ...
Ajo Kawir is one of the toughest fighters in the Javanese underworld, his fearlessness matched only by his unquenchable thirst for brawling. But the young thug is driven by a painful secret: he is impotent. When he finally meets his match in the form of the fearsome, beautiful bodyguard Iteung, Ajo is left bruised, battered, and overjoyed.
Mark Cheng (1991–1995) Philip Ko (1995-2017) Yukari Ōshima (大島ゆかり, Ōshima Yukari, born December 31, 1963) is a Japanese actress and martial artist. She gained prominence in Hong Kong and became popular in the Philippines as Cynthia Luster. Due to Filipinos' interest in Jackie Chan, she became Chan's pseudo female equivalent.
The novel became the basis of Shohei Imamura's film Vengeance Is Mine. He also wrote the books about Norio Nagayama, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Fusako Sano and Futoshi Matsunaga. In 1992, Saki published a book about Japanese Resident-General of Korea Itō Hirobumi and Korean An Jung-geun, titled Itō Hirobumi to An Jung-geun.
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama Bushikō) is a 1983 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura.It stars Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin, Ken Ogata, and Shoichi Ozawa.It is an adaptation of the book Narayama bushikō by Shichirō Fukazawa [1] and slightly inspired by the 1958 film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.