Kazuko is a young, beautiful but bitter woman, men are out hanging out all day, she can only wash and cook at home, take care of her in-laws, so she wants a divorce!
Gong Gong Zhenxiong is a devout Catholic, and his wife has been ill for many years, so he relies on this daughter-in-law to maintain the family. In Catholic culture, divorce is a big taboo, so the father-in-law is absolutely not allowed to divorce Kazuko.
Such a complicated family, Yuzuyan is the pillar of this family, Kazuko's husband, the villain who has become a murderer and a fraudster.
"Revenge on Me", directed by Masahira Imamura and starring Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rintaro Mikuni, and Mizuko Begaku, was released in Japan in 1979 and won the first place in the top ten films of japan's "Movie Shunbun" in 1979.
The film is based on the 1963 Japanese story of Akira Nishiguchi's serial killings. The protagonist Yuzuyan grew up in the turbulent period of Japan in the early 20th century, first the Japanese invasion of China, the army forcibly requisitioned the ships of the Yuzuyan family, the father repeatedly endured, the young Yuzuyan rose up with anger in his heart, but was blocked and suppressed by his father, and since then his father's tall image has collapsed.
Japan was defeated, U.S. forces were rampant, and the country's order collapsed. During this period, Yu Jinyan stole and bought US military equipment, and was arrested and imprisoned for several years. He was released from prison and married Kazuko, but was soon imprisoned for fraud. Yu Jinyan, who was released from prison again, learned of his wife's relationship with his father, ran away from home, and began to embark on the depraved path of murder and fraud...
Masahira Imamura uses flashbacks, interludes, and other techniques to reproduce the origin of a villain and his criminal history, and analyzes the background of the country and family, trying to draw a crime map of Yuzuyan. The switching of time and space is frequent, but through the organic combination of the director, the whole film is completed in one go, and the life of the criminal is outlined in just two hours.
As an anthropologist among directors, Masahira Imamura is good at reflecting the fate of low-level characters and likes to use sex as a primitive driving force to illustrate the problem. In the hot spring lust scene at the beginning, the fierce conflict between human nature, animal nature, ethics and morality, it is too difficult to be human!
In the film, the director speaks with a neutral and calm attitude and speaks with the facts described by the camera. Under the director's lens, the character transforms into a maggot, driven by natural desires, to a fatalistic ending. At the end of yujinyan's escape, he pretends to be a university professor and a secret prostitute in a small guest house to warm each other, but the crime must be punished, and his vain life is about to end...
Ogata's Uzumaki starring Ogata is full of cynical evil, while the father of Rintaro Mikuni, who is old and conservative, is full of tension in the scene between the two. Kazuko, starring Mizuko, has twinkles in her eyes and shows her perfect figure in the hot spring erotic scene.