Rating: 8.0
Runtime: 86 minutes
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239925/
Director: Masao Adachi
Cast:
Co-produced by Masao Adachi, Yu Yamazaki, Masaaki Nonomura,
Susumu Iwabuchi, Masao Matsuda, and Mamoru Sasaki.
Music supervision by Hisato Aikura
Music performed by Masahiko Togashi and Mototeru Takagi
Narration by Masao Adachi
Music by Mototeru Takagi / Masahiko Togashi, Recorded 12/19/69 for a soundtrack to Masao Adachi’s Serial Killer
Album : Isolation
Tracklisting :
1 Isolation I (16:48)
2 Isolation II (19:05)
Drums, Vibraphone, Marimba, Timpani, Percussion, Written-by, Artwork By – Masahiko Togashi
Saxophone Tenor, Clarinet (Bass) – Mototeru Takagi
Description: A horrifying series of murders, committed by a teenaged killer in 1968, prompted a group of filmmakers to chart his path, capturing the things he might have seen before committing his crimes. Their result is this provocative, rarely-screened meditation on geography and society.
AKA: Serial Killer, made in 1969 by a filmmaking collective which included Masao Adachi, Masao Matsuda, and Mamoru Sasaki, was based on the imagined journey of a serial killer. The film is a fascinating sort of travelogue, punctuated by voiceover and the discordant music of a free-jazz trio, as we see various scenes of Japanese life: festivals, military exercises, sporting events. There are also passages through deserted private and public spaces. Their result is this provocative, rarely-screened meditation on geography and society.
Starting with the narration: “In the fall of 1968, four murders took place in four cities. In all four, the same gun was used. In the spring of 1969, a 19 year old boy was arrested. He came to be called a “serial shooting killer (renzoku-shasatsu-ma)”.
This film continuously shows the landscape that the absent protagonist-killer Norio Nagayama must have seen, shooting only the trajectory of Nagayama’s drifts from the suburbs of Abashiri City, Hokkaido • downtown of Abashiri City • Itayanagi • Hirosaki • Aomori • Hakodate • Itayanagi • Yamagata • Fukushima • Itayanagi • Shibuya • Yokohama • Nagoya • Hong Kong • Yokohama • Oyama • Utsunomiya • Osaka • Moriguchi • Haneda • Kawasaki • Yokosuka • Kawasaki • Yodobashi • Higashinakano • Ikebukuro • Sugamo • Odawara • Atami • Nagoya • Osaka • Kobe • Yokohama • Nerima • Nishiogikubo • Higashinakano • Itayanagi • Tokyo • Nagano • Yokosuka • Ikebukuro • Shiba • Kyoto • Yokohama • Ikebukuro • Hakodate • Otaru • Sapporo • Hakodate • Nagoya • Yokohama • Shinjuku
- Nakano Yokohama Harajuku.
The camera eye mostly shows various landscapes across Japan, following the itinerary of a young informal worker, Norio Nagayama, who ended up committing a series of shootings in these places. Then a relatively known film director made a narrative film about Nagayama’s miserable upbringing and tried to make a statement about the social inequality that was supposed to have been responsible for his crime (The film is “Naked Nineteen -Hadaka no Jyuukyuu-sai-” directed by Kaneto Shindo, 1970). Meanwhile this group decided to pursue a totally different approach, which, precisely speaking, is neither a story film nor documentary. It is an attempt to see exactly what Nagayama saw along his itinerary looking for a better job, a better place, which never existed. The resulting film shows a series of terrains that have been transformed to the effect of losing genius loci or the singularities of place and became a series of postcard-like landscapes. This was the most straightforward critique of capital’s “real subsumption,” namely, the overall commodification of the everyday, which corresponds to the critique of “spectacle” by Guy Debord (The key word used in the debate provoked by the film was fukei in Japanese, which is commonly translated as “landscape.” As opposed to that, the music critic Yuzo Sakuramoto suggested to use “spectacle.”). – Sabu Kohso
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Rar Password: None
VHS rip. In Japanese. Soundtrack consists of a sparse, free-jazz, improvisation, with only occasional narration.
