{"id":281,"date":"2007-05-27T18:09:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T22:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/281"},"modified":"2010-11-26T13:43:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T18:43:20","slug":"vengeance-is-mine-1979-shohei-imamura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/281","title":{"rendered":"Vengeance Is Mine (1979, Shohei Imamura)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imamura&#8217;s comeback film a decade after <em>Profound Desire of the Gods<\/em>.  Flashed back and forth in time and space and starts at the end, rather like most of today&#8217;s movies, telling story of a sociopath killer with a troubled past.  Iwao Enokizu is on a delivery run when he kills a couple of guys.  Goes on the run for a couple months, pretends to be a professor and takes up with a girl at the boarding house he&#8217;s hiding at.  They seem to like each other, but he ends up killing her (and her distrustful ex-con mother) and I think one other person before getting caught.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/vengeanceismine1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/vengeanceismine2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Style to spare.  Not my favorite movie, but definitely good and possibly great, makes up for the last Imamura movie I wasn&#8217;t too sure about, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/35\">The Eel<\/a><\/em>.  Happy to see a very modern Japanese movie, not a sloggy period piece.  Watched with Jimmy Lo, who also liked.  Made about the same time as <em>Days of Heaven<\/em>, <em>Apocalypse Now<\/em>, <em>Stalker<\/em>, <em>Stroszek<\/em>, <em>Kagemusha<\/em>, <em>Zigeunerweisen<\/em>, <em>Altered States<\/em> and <em>The Elephant Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/vengeanceismine3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/vengeanceismine4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imamura&#8217;s comeback film a decade after Profound Desire of the Gods. Flashed back and forth in time and space and starts at the end, rather like most of today&#8217;s movies, telling story of a sociopath killer with a troubled past. Iwao Enokizu is on a delivery run when he kills a couple of guys. Goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,13,36,719],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-criterion","tag-japan","tag-shohei-imamura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}