Fresh
The camera swirls and swoops. The present gives way to the past, which, in turn gives way to the present, with the speed of a narrator who can't resist interrupting himself.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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Violence at Noon
Overview
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Director and cast
- Nagisa Ōshima Director
- Saeda Kawaguchi as Shino Shinozaki
- Akiko Koyama as Matsuko Koura, wife of Eisuke, teacher
- Kei Satō as Eisuke Oyamada
- Rokkō Toura as Genji Hyuga
- Hideo Kanze as Inagaki, husband of the raped woman
- Narumi Kayashima as Jinbo, teacher
- Teruko Kishi as Shino's grandmother
- Hōsei Komatsu as Shino's father
- Hideko Kawaguchi as Matsuko's mother
- Ryoko Takahara as Raped woman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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Fresh
As in several other films, Oshima takes the story of a real-life criminal (here, a rapist and murderer) and uses it as the key to a sweeping analysis of the ills of post-war Japanese society.
Tony Rayns, Time Out
Fresh
Violence At Noon plays like Rashomon viewed through the crooked lens of Jean-Luc Godard, a prismatic take on rape and murder under the hot light of an interrogation room.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
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