Tuesday, February 23, 2010

the revenge : a scar that never fades (kiyoshi kurosawa, 1997, in japanese)

Forms a pair with "A Visit from Fate" (see previous post). Sho Aikawa's characters in the two movies have the same name and some of the same history. But are they really the same man? As with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's other Sho-Aikawa-starring pair of movies with guns - "Serpent's Path" and "Eyes of the Spider" - the two movies might roll in two slightly different universes.

Nice longish-distance view of a shootout. Cool car scenes with purposeful Godardly misaligned wacky music. The car is really dirty. Best use of a metal detector in a movie ever?

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