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The Sun's Burial on DVD (1960)

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Average rating: 64%
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Starring: Masahiko Tsugawa, Kayoko Honoo, Isao Sasaki, Fumio Watanabe, Kamatari Fujiwara, Tanie Kitabayashi, Junzaburo Ban, Jun Hamamura, Bokuzen Hidari, Kyu Ito, Yusuke Kawazu, Asao Koike, Hosei Komatsu, Koji Nakahara, Kei Sato, Gen Shimizu
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Studio: YUME PICTURES
Run time: 87 mins
Certificate: 15
Genres: Drama, World Cinema
Languages: Japanese
Released: 26/05/2008

Brief synopsis of The Sun's Burial

Set in the post-war slums of Osaka, The Sun's Burial follows the lives and fates of the denizens of this hellish ghetto. Pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, vagrants, hustlers and gangsters struggle to survive amidst the poverty and decay of 1950's Japan.

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New York Times

Provocative... Visually beautiful, eerily cool