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Ototo | 1967,
103 min, colour, 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles, NC16
Directed by OSHIMA
Nagisa / 大島 渚
Cast: ARAKI Ichiro, YOSHIDA Hideko
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JAPAN FOUNDATION
| SCREENING | 21
Aug Sat - 11.00am | Despite
flights of comedy, (unnerving) sexual fantasy, youthful yearning, karaoke and
hootenannies, Sing a Song of Sex offers an intent, penetrating portrait of a generation
confronting its new freedoms and its inability to act on them.
A group
of provincial students arrives in Tokyo to take university entrance exams. Disillusioned
and nihilistic, they spend their time singing dirty songs and fantasizing about
strangling a rich girl. Set on a politically charged day - the Founder's Day holiday,
reinstated in 1967 after the American Occupation had banned it - amid gently falling
snow, this tender, crushingly sad examination of the alienation of Japanese youth
suggests that solidarity is illusionary, and that political action will always
be trumped or undone by sexual desire. The portrait of Otake, the students' mentor
who teaches them the sex songs of the title, which he says express the despair
of the oppressed, is movingly ambiguous. The film's final sequences are among
Oshima's most disturbing.
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