Outlaw-Matsu Comes Home

Outlaw-Matsu Comes Home

1973
52m
6.3

6.3/10

5 votes • View on IMDb
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

Status: Released

Language: JA

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Production Information

Production Countries
Japan
Spoken Languages
Japanese

Quick Facts

Original Title 無法松故郷に帰る
Release Date January 1, 1973
Status Released
Language JA
IMDb ID tt2027169

Cast

Shōhei Imamura
Shōhei Imamura

Himself

Key Crew

Shōhei Imamura
Director
Matsuo Takahashi
Producer