Country: Japan
Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
As I watched the Pale flower for second time after some years, I admired it even more as one of the finest products of the Japanese new wave cinema of 60's, a film with zero weaknesses that aging perfectly as the time pass. An exemplary noir/yakuza film, call it as you want, dark and nihilistic to the core, with beautiful black and white photography and an amazing dreamy avant garde music score by the genius of Toru Takemitsu, it captures perfectly the pessimistic post war spirit of a westernized traumatized Japan that was trying to keep up with the radical changes and to find a new identity.
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