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The Sun's Burial (太陽の墓場)
Overview
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
Key Crew
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
Screenplay: Nagisa Ōshima, Toshirō Ishidō
Producer: Tomio Ikeda
Director of Photography: Takashi Kawamata
Top Cast
Masahiko Tsugawa
Shin, leader of gang
Kayoko Honoo
Hanako
Isao Sasaki
New gang member Takeshi
Fumio Watanabe
Yosehei
Kamatari Fujiwara
Batasuke, peddler
Tanie Kitabayashi
Chika, Batasuke's wife
Junzaburō Ban
Yotsematsu, Hanako's father
Yūsuke Kawazu
Yasu
