Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home (1973)

ALL 01/01/1973 (ja) Documentary, TV Movie 52 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1973
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    75%
  • Original title
    無法松故郷に帰る
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found several of them who had remained in Thailand. Two years later, I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home. During the filming, my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his ‘vicious brother.’ I was shocked, and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene. By the next morning, to my relief, Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother. But I couldn’t have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking.” —Shôhei Imamura

  1. Shōhei Imamura

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Matsuo Takahashi

    Producer



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Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home (1973) 52 Min

ALL 01/01/1973 (ja)
Documentary, TV Movie
  • Release 01/01/1973
  • Production
  • Original title 無法松故郷に帰る
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found several of them who had remained in Thailand. Two years later, I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home. During the filming, my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his ‘vicious brother.’ I was shocked, and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene. By the next morning, to my relief, Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother. But I couldn’t have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking.” —Shôhei Imamura

  1. Shōhei Imamura

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Matsuo Takahashi

    Producer