1978 ‘鬼畜’ Directed by Yoshitaro Nomura
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.
Shima Iwashita Ken Ogata Mayumi Ogawa Hiroki Iwase Miyuki Yoshizawa Jun Ishii Jun Hamamura Keizo Kanie Yoshi Katō Mizuho Suzuki Noboru Mitani Seiichi Suzuki Kunie Tanaka Hatsuo Yamaya Hideji Ōtaki Shinobu Otake Takanobu Hozumi Eimei Esumi Yoshie Hinoki Yukio Horikita Tokuo Ichimaru Hirokazu Inoue Hirokazu Ishii Jun Kajima Hisako Kawamura Taku Kido Shirô Matsuda Norio Matsui Yasukiyo Umeno Show All…
Kichiku, Дьявол, El demonio, Демон, L'Été du démon, 귀축
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When a printer has a difficult time making ends meet, he falls behind on supporting his Mistress who leaves their three children with him - much to the fury of his wife, who had been unaware of the affair. When the mistress disappears, it falls on the couple to raise the children - made difficult by the fact that the stepmother would like to see them dead.
One of eight collaborations between director Yoshitarō Nomura and writer Seichō Matsumoto, with brilliant performances by Shima Iwashita as the enraged wife and Ken Ogata as her hopelessly acquessing husband. It picked up two Japanese Academy Awards in 1978, one for Nomura's direction, the other for Ogata. It's a complex character study with…
What to do, with three
Children and no food?
A terribly haunting movie. Some of the most depressing scenes I've seen in a long time, with Shima Iwashita's glaring and piercing eyes, that could inflame a temple, with all the rage and contempt stored up in her, for the unfaithful husband that brings some trouble into the household.
A really hard hitting drama, with some seedy and downright disgusting scenes. The awkwardness of someone else's children, a thematic that really seems to captivate Yoshitaro Nomura.
Scarier and more disturbing than most movies labeled as horror. The back half a series of child endangerment scenarios as a Ken Ogata tries to find a way to get rid of his son but whatever means necessary. Family rendered as a through monstrous thing, a huge weight on both sides. Nomura sustains the punishing action throughout and Ogata is great. The movie is so focused no other character is allowed to matter as anything other than nuisances.
For seven years Sokichi have had an affair with a woman he used to work with. They have three young children together, and when Sokichi stops providing with money she is left with no other option than to confront him and tell his wife about what's been going on. It all ends with the mistress leaving Sokichi's kids in his care, and he foolishly assumes that his wife, that have been betrayed for years, will help him take care of them. What happens is that she takes out her rage on the kids.
This is the story about three asshole adults and the three children that suffers because of it. It's an unsympathetic portrayal of adults (with all right), and…
Criterion's under-seen darling The Demon is a wonderful, if difficult, melodrama that made me almost believe I was watching a satire. Haunting as that orange cover-poster may be, the film itself is a decidedly less supernatural story that follows a couple's bad-to-worse decisions after discovering that the husband's former mistress will no longer care for her three children.
I mentioned that the film struck me as satire because, frankly, everything felt overly magnified. This is not a criticism so much as an observation, but I do think it is true. The acting, the overall desire of the couple concerning the husband's children, and the finale bring together a story of unwanted children and the desperate attempts of desperate couples to…
1978
Una de esas pelis que me ha costado horrores encontrar, más existiendo pelis homónimas de 1972 y 1979, horrores no comparables a lo que cuenta. Basada en una novela de Seicho Matsumoto, 鬼畜 de Yoshitaro Nomura es un duro relato en el que la maldad impregna unos adultos que descargan su amargura e infelicidad contra la inocencia de los más jóvenes. La aparentemente simple premisa explota cuando uno de los personajes se borra de la narrativa, dejando una situación asfixiante, de violencia in-crescendo, con un hábil uso del punto de vista.
Arremete contra el concepto de familia, la cordura atribuida al progenitor, pone el foco en las víctimas de sus decisiones. Es una vuelta de tuerca realmente cruel del concepto de Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) que sin efectismos consigue algo trágico, perturbador, pero extrañamente bello y elegante. Fácil ver influencia en melodramas japoneses posteriores.
Vista en calidad aceptable y subtitulada aquí.
A film that makes my heart hurt, placing small children who are still innocent in the care of adults who are clearly not entirely good because it all starts from lust & jealousy that finally sparks fire.
It just hurt to see the kids to go through the "hell", and everything happened because men stupidity to fall into lust, especially when they in good financial situation, it's great that you take the responsibility but what makes it complicated because the situation is Sokichi having an affair with Kikuyo who gives birth to 3 children in their 7 years of relationship, all of that makes his legitimate wife, Oume falls into a deep pain in seeing her husband having children with other…
The last movie I watched on Filmstruck, watching this is fitting with how I feel about it going away.
Warner Brothers are the shitty parents and the children are Filmstruck.
"this is a living hell" - a horror masterpiece
- acting: ken ogata and shima iwashita have this insidious subtlety about them, i can understand how some people were quick to dismiss her character as "cunning shrew bitch wife" but i think they're not appreciating the context that has been laid out; in any case iwashita's Oume spitefully lashes out at her circumstances, hatred and anger which of course inadvertently manifests itself in physical/verbal abuse. is it twisted love for her husband or her lashing out at her awful, no room for options situation or hell is it just all the sexual tension and frustration after finding out her husband may have had kids with a mistress while she slaved…
Cruelly unsparing film about the terrible predicament of unwanted children. Ken Ogata is sensational as per usual as the deadbeat philanderer whose mistress takes revenge on him by saddling him with his children with her. Not an easy watch by any means but it does pay dividends in its potent approach to examining just how cruel a loveless family can be.
Yoshitaro Nomura directs Ken Ogata, in a two hour drama, about a man who's philandering has dire consequences for those around him.
Nomura was a noir director in the 60s, and while I enjoyed those films, he turned more to drama later, which I feel was the right career direction.
There are some issues to point out here before I praise the film, there is a degree of construction throughout this film where you do see the hand of the director, there's a point where you'll wonder on credibility, the soundtrack both elevates at times, gets in the way at others.
I loved this movie, for its take no prisoners despair, 1970s unlikeable characters and felt like I'd finished a…
