The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Tokyo-Sense Sengo Hiwa)
Part of the BAMcinématek series The Cruel Stories of Nagisa Oshima
Mon, April 13 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
Directed by Nagisa Oshima
With Kazuo Goto, Eimiko Iwasaki
(1970) 94min
“Anybody who still gives a damn about film criticism today needs to join Oshima’s richly didactic call-to-arms laid out here.” —The Village Voice
Following the suicide of a young Communist filmmaker, his colleagues attempt to reconstruct the events that led up to his death by examining the footage left behind on his camera. What they find draws them into a mystery that becomes a provocative interrogation of the capacity for cinema as a medium for political change.
Channel 4 Film on The Man Who Left His Will on Film
"Oshima's provocative film throws up more questions than it could ever hope to answer (about politics, about film-making, about youth), but is nonetheless fascinating." More