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                   Vengeance Is Mine (Criterion) (1979)
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Like all great Shohei Imamura protagonists, Vengeance Is Mine's Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) lurks on the margins of Japanese society. A thief, murderer, and charming lady-killer, Iwao is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story, of the seventy-three-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family, into a cold, perverse, and, at times, diabolically funny tale of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime case, Vengeance Is Mine bares mankind's snarling id.
                 
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