Sunday | December 14, 2008 9:30 pm

Three Resurrected Drunkards
(Kaettekita Yopparai)

Screening on Film

Directed by Nagisa Oshima.
With Kazuhiko Kato, Osamu Kitayama, Norihiko Hashida.
Japan, 1968, 35mm, color, 80 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: The Japan Foundation

A zany, biting satire of the racist and chauvinist assumptions of postwar Japan, Three Resurrected Drunkards follows the comic misadventures of three bumbling students mistaken for Korean stowaways. A visually stunning and exuberant work, Three Resurrected Drunkards uses its screwball fable to reveal the militaristic vestiges of Japan’s nationalist past lingering in Vietnam War-era nation and the dramatically expanding gulf separating youth from the prewar generation.