The best crime film ever to come out of Japan, “Vengeance is Mine” is a portrait of a stone-hearted killer on a rampage of slaughter and seduction: a real-life story about a psychopath nicknamed “The King of Criminals,” done so convincingly that we’re held throughout in an icy grip of fear and fascination.
Ken Ogata, Imamura’s favorite actor, plays Iwao Enokizue, an engaging, endlessly tricky and sexually voracious 30ish man in business glasses wh ...
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