After the critical acclaim of his 1969 feature “Eros + Massacre”, Kiju Yoshida went even further in the second part of his political trilogy, “Heroic Purgatory”. The creative freedom the director enjoyed in his collaboration with Art Theater Guild would result in a work which, if you believe film scholars such as David Desser, is even bolder than its predecessor, continuing the filmmaker’s predilection on breaking the rules of cinema, from narration to elements of the mise-en-scène. In many ways, “Heroic Purgatory” seems to be a companion piece to the kind of cinema colleagues such as Nagisa Oshima were making at the time, establishing a rather bleak image at the end of a tumultuous decade, which was somewhat skeptical of the lasting social and political change the large amount of protests had tried to achieve in the past years.
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- 2/20/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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