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Perhaps the greatest Japanese film of the last thirty years, VENGEANCE IS MINE was banned in Ontario until critical and public pressure forced the Film Review Board to change its mind. In his article on the controversy, Globe & Mail critic Jay Scott wrote that “VENGEANCE IS MINE is not merely a good movie, it's a masterpiece.” Imamura's portrait of a psychotic, voted the best Japanese film of the decade by critics in both Los Angeles and New York, is an icily precise account of the true story of a mass murderer from a devout Catholic family. VENGEANCE tracks the criminal on a seventy-eight-day spree of murder and mayhem throughout Japan with unnerving objectivity, which, combined with the film's formal beauty and precision, and its refusal to explain or condemn the killer, make it “a devastating experience” (Dave Kehr). “Inside of this man, could there be nothing but hollowness? I think I can see the forlorn inner soul of today's man” (Imamura).
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