{"id":12842,"date":"2018-11-06T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12842"},"modified":"2018-11-04T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:09:11","slug":"diary-of-a-shinjuku-thief-1968-nagisa-oshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12842","title":{"rendered":"Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968, Nagisa Oshima)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe the grungiest, most lo-fi, handheld Oshima movie I’ve seen, with some apparently documentary segments. Also maybe more sexual violence than usual. Some nice closeups on hands, like in other<\/a> thief movies<\/a>. Whole movie looks dubbed, with some cool troubadour songs (not as funky as the ones in Izo<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Longhaired anarchist book thief Hilltop Birdman (Tadanori Yokoo, a minor role in Mishima<\/a><\/em>) is nabbed by employee Umeko (Rie Yokoyama of Wakamatsu’s Ecstacy of the Angels<\/em>), to the delightful indifference of her boss, who tries to give the thief more free books. But it’s the late 1960’s and if anyone’s gonna embrace the revolution in the air, it’s Oshima. The movie goes off on tangents about sex and psychology, turns from black-and-white to color, plays with poetry and literature and theater, and makes cool images and tries to freak out the normies. “I do feel something like rage toward nothing in particular.”<\/p>\n

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It’s all crying out for some explanatory blu-ray features – for instance, it’s been a minute since I watched Death By Hanging<\/a><\/em>, so I didn’t realize that movie’s primary male cast appears in a roundtable discussion as themselves – but I tend to love Oshima films even when I’m confused by them.<\/p>\n

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Maybe the grungiest, most lo-fi, handheld Oshima movie I’ve seen, with some apparently documentary segments. Also maybe more sexual violence than usual. Some nice closeups on hands, like in other thief movies. Whole movie looks dubbed, with some cool troubadour songs (not as funky as the ones in Izo). Longhaired anarchist book thief Hilltop Birdman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,36,873,1329,182,1308,2493],"class_list":["post-12842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-japan","tag-nagisa-oshima","tag-psychology","tag-sex","tag-theater","tag-thief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12865,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842\/revisions\/12865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}