Japanese crime films, usually the plot is more complex, the characters' criminal motives are more extreme, but the excellent works are highly intelligent, brutal, and touching, and the following explanations will take stock of the top ten must-see Japanese crime movies.
Heavenly Station
"Heavenly Station" directed by Nobumasa Demo is definitely a work of Japanese poignant films! The choreographer digs deep into the inner world of the heroine, analyzes the many characters associated with the heroine's crime and their social reasons, thus revealing the complex multiple factors that force Hayashi Kadai to kill, portraying the characters in multiple aspects and at multiple levels, reflecting the current situation of Japanese society, and causing people to reflect through Hayashi Kadai's encounters.
Rashomon
This film is different from the confusion of the original crime, through the woodcutter's second narration to give the truth of the murder: is the real murderer the robber Tadashimaru, but the hidden plot behind the death in the jungle is shocking. Several of the parties involved claimed to be murderers, which was quite amusing. Death exposes humanity to the summer sun, and human patheticity, smallness, and complexity give crime films a deeper philosophical connotation.
Witnesses
The story of this film is sentimental, the son's attachment to his mother and the sadness of losing his mother's love, and the mother's killing of thousands of miles to find her son in order to protect her reputation, constitute a sharp contrast, and deeply analyze the embarrassing human nature of different races facing family affection. Suspenseful, ups and downs, gripping, while showing the distorted humanity of society, but also exposing the darkness and decay of the upper echelons of Japanese society.
Fireworks
The protagonist of this film is a policeman who fights against prisoners, underworld organizations, and violent groups, and there are of course violent scenes in the film. The story is not complicated by a desperate end, the philosophy of life and death has become the most outstanding foundation of the film, and life blooms like a spark, so beautiful and with an unconcealed sadness.
The dedication of suspect x
Mathematical genius and physical genius, there is no suspense between these two masters, and the wonderful process is self-evident. Interestingly, the most common gimmick in the TV series, the mysterious phenomenon, did not appear in the movie version. , adding elements of pure love to the meticulous reasoning, and achieving success. Therefore, what Yukawa Gaku has to face is not the mystery of physics, but the unsolvable mystery of love.
Sand vessel
A generous and beloved veteran police officer was murdered at the Tokyo train station, and the two agents who were ordered to investigate could not find any motive for the murder, but under their perseverance, they revealed a musician who wanted to hide his unbearable life from the bottom, and the story is very intriguing.
Ah, Wild Wheat Ridge
This film vividly shows the tragic experience of young boys and girls in Changshou County who crossed the mountains and went out to work to support their families. Not only are the main actors simple, delicate and realistic, but there are depictions of criminals such as rape, arson, and theft in the story, director Yamamoto Safu has a strong sense of social criticism, and the epic style of image control and group portrait character shaping cannot be underestimated.
Rain Moon Story
Named one of the "100 Great Works of Film History" by Art Cinema, the film shows the trauma of war on civilians and is a Zen allegory about greed, ambition, desire, and other themes. Its visual style is like a banner scroll painting, and at the beginning and end of the film, a panoramic horizontal long shot can be seen, and there is a sense of coherence in time and space, which is also true and illusory.
Heaven and Hell
Through a bizarre blackmail incident, build a one-way bridge between money and humanity, one end of heaven and the other of hell. Dissecting the opposites of good and evil in human nature, young kidnappers who hate the rich, honest businessmen who offer ransom and earnest criminal policemen, fun-filled reasoning and analysis, Akira Kurosawa silently pays tribute to Alfred Hitchcock with a sense of justice.
Hunt
A detective film with its own unique style, the plot is twisted, suspenseful, and very rhythmic and fascinating. Director Junya Sato uses a lot of realistic techniques to deal with the film, the plot of the whole film is undulating, and the unshakable love of the hero and heroine until death is even more touching, and the bold and enthusiastic line "I love you" has set off a lot of influence on the campus in the 80s.
Ten Japanese crime films alone is certainly not enough to watch, and I recommend some other types of Japanese crime movies below, I hope you can find surprises from them.
When the prayer ends
This film involves an era spanning thirty years and tracing back to the past, but what is to be complained about behind the case is actually the absence of family affection and social collapse, which makes people's humanity helplessly distorted. The deceased, the murderer, Hiromi Asami, Andichiro Kaga, seem to be at peace, and the story progresses layer by layer, revealing their inextricable relationship, which is well organized, so that the audience can fully appreciate the lethality of the broken family.
The Devil of the Day
Although it is the beginning and end of a rape and murder case, the film unfolds in the interweaving of Shino and Matsuko's memories and reality, what is the matter with the criminal who is known as the "devil of the day"? This film explores the "magic nature" in people's hearts, not only sexual desire, but also from a social and political point of view, writing about the psychological crux of Japan's post-war young people. The film creates an extreme sense of tension through the use of the camera, reflecting Nagisa Oshima's extraordinary skill.
Eight Tombs Village
Eight samurai came to a ruined village with three thousand taels of gold, but they were killed by the profit-hungry villagers, and many strange things happened. The version recommended by Ichikawa Kun is better than Nomura's in evaluation because it is more popular.
confession
The root of the ideological theme that this film tries to hide is the true description of reality, the warning of a sloping society, the sneering ridicule of the stinking humanism, and the utter chill of real life. At the end of the film, on the darkened screen, the last words spoken by Matsu Takako are the best embodiment of this point of view, which can be said to be a decadent sentence for the arrogant sense of sense.
Golden Dreams
Firmly grasping the essence of the original work, pinching the "seven inches" of each climax, the memories of Aoyagi's former life that were constantly inserted were in stark contrast to his current thrilling situation. Friendship and love are pushed to the level of extreme ambiguity, and the ex-girlfriend of a woman, the psychopathic serial killer reaches out, making it difficult to measure these behaviors with moral yardsticks, although accompanied by death, blood and bullets, it is very exciting.
Like a moon in doubt
All the stories in the film take place in a small room, like a stage play. The five of them all meet for the first time, and they begin to reminisce about the beginning and end of Ruzuki's suicide. They were suspicious of each other, fought, quarreled, and finally pieced together the truth of the incident. The plot is gripping, and at the same time there is no lack of warm humanistic care.
Goodbye Box Boat
The film tells the story of a village that has lost all its clocks and watches for many years, and when the clocks and watches are recovered, the villagers have gone away, and the village has disappeared into the long river of history, leaving only traces in family photos.
This is a story of the ontology meeting at different coordinate points in time and space, and the director tries to put forward a bold hypothesis through the characters in the play, whether it is possible to go back to the past and kill the mother three generations ago? And the "I" in the play also tries to try this, the picture has a poetic beauty, and the absolute style is a crime art film.
x Holy Rule
The film begins with a series of strange serial killings, leading to a mysterious youth with hypnotic abilities, the killings continue to expand, the police officers and psychologists investigating the case are also involved, and the plot is full of ups and downs step by step, full of suspense, quite fascinating. However, the focus of the film is not to show the process of solving cases such as reasoning and investigation, but to explore the survival of modern people.
Points and lines
The adaptation of the works of Japanese reasoning master Kiyoharu Matsumoto highlights the perspective of Takeshi Kitano as an old policeman, and through keen observation and calm analysis, describes the collusion and fraud between the political and financial circles, reveals the ills of the times, criticizes the darkness of the country, and does not forget to restore the soldiers of World War II to victims.