The Sun's Burial

The Sun's Burial

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Release Date

8/9/1960

Runtime

87 mins

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

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Revenue

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A raw, unsentimental portrait of lives trapped in Osaka's postwar slums, where loyalty curdles into violence and survival means constant moral compromise. The film watches these youths destroy each other with the documentary eye of a coroner.

Mood

BleakDread-soakedTenseAngry

Themes

SurvivalBetrayalFriendshipComing apartClass

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Steady

Look

HandheldDocumentary-likeDesaturated

Structure

Ensemble

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Graphic violenceSexual contentAddiction

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