The Sleeping Beast Within AKA The Sleep of the Beast
(Kemono no nemuri)
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Directed by Seijun Suzuki.
With Hiroyuki Nagato, Shinsuke Ashida, Hisano Yamaoka.
Japan, 1960, 35mm, black & white, 86 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation
With Hiroyuki Nagato, Shinsuke Ashida, Hisano Yamaoka.
Japan, 1960, 35mm, black & white, 86 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation
A businessman vanishes upon his return from an overseas trip, and his daughter hires a reporter to help find him. When the father reappears, the reporter becomes suspicious and starts digging deeper, uncovering a secret world of heroin smuggling and murder—all tied up with a mysterious Sun God cult. This proto-Breaking Bad moves to an energetic pulp fiction beat all the way to its spectacular conflagration of an ending.
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