Night and Fog in Japan

Night and Fog in Japan (1960)

日本の夜と霧

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.

Date of release
1960-10-09
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (30)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Drama
Director
Nagisa Ōshima

Casting

Interesting facts

Night and Fog in Japan is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. It deals with the contemporaneous Zengakuren opposition but also evokes the 1960 protests against the Anpo treaty; this political content is related to the particular approach of memory and interpersonal dynamics of social movements in the film.

Production

For Night and Fog in Japan Ōshima received the funding and creative latitude as part of Shochiku's strategy of promoting films by several young directors which the studio marketed as the "Shochiku New Wave" (Shochiku Nuberu bagu).

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