Country: Japan
Directed by Tomu Uchida
In my opinion one of the most underrated movies in the history of cinema "A fugitive of the past" is easily among my five most favorite Japanese films ever made. Although you would fully understand this statement only if you watch it, I would try to identify what makes this movie so great apart of it's fascinating plot, the amazing black and white photography or the captivating music score : it's this raw realism, depicting the misery of post war defeated Japan with unparalleled accuracy, that occasionally and unexpectedly cracks with a way we rarelly see, revealing a terrifying opening to the fragility of the human condition itself, where the subconscious, the guilts and obsessions, the fear of supernatural but mostly the limitations that mortality sets, define our existence and fate.
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