The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Asian Premiere
Nagisa Oshima Japan 1970 94 min R21 (Sexual Scenes and Nudity)
In 1970s Japan, a student radical witnesses his comrade’s suicide and becomes obsessed with decoding a reel of film he left behind.
Fleeing the police, Motoki watches his comrade, activist filmmaker Endo, fall to his death while recording street scenes. He wakes up later to a contradictory reality where no one remembers Endo, despite finding the final footage in his camera. Certain that the spliced rushes contain his will, Motoki coerces Endo’s girlfriend Yasuko into solving the mystery together, but the ensuing journey begins to fragment their realities and selves.
Quixotic yet self-aware, The Man Who Left His Will on Film packs fatalistic fantasies with wry cynicism. Nagisa Oshima’s disorienting meta-cinema satire confronts the youthful hubris, impulsivities and existential impotence of a filmmaker’s experience of the 1968 Tokyo riots.
2 Dec, Mon 7:00PM / 94 min
Oldham Theatre
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The Man Who Left His Will on Film
東京戦争戦後秘話
Nagisa Oshima
Japan
1970
Japanese
English
94 min
R21 (Sexual Scenes and Nudity)
Asian Premiere
Nagisa Oshima
Nagisa Oshima was a Japanese filmmaker and left-wing activist, best known for In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Night and Fog in Japan (1960) and Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (1983). His films are often controversial due to their sexual subject matter and critique of Japanese politics.
Takuji Yamaguchi
Kazuo Goto,
Iwasaki Emiko
