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THE WARPED ONES
1960
Director
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Starring
Tamio Kawachi
Eiji Go
Yuko Chishiro
Noriko Matsumoto
Runtime
76 minutes
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A jazz-obsessed delinquent and a reckless sex worker are released from juvenile detention and wreak havoc on everyone in their paths, including the newspaper reporter who got them arrested and his bourgeois artist fiancée.
Shot through with the same kind of bebop bravado that was defining a new era of cinema across the world in the '60s, the anarchic descent into amoral madness that is THE WARPED ONES sounded a lost generation’s cry for help and was one of the films that kicked off Japan’s cinematic new wave with a bang.
“More breathless than BREATHLESS but with a real evil streak. Sweat and jazz exploding into the sun. Wanting to die but never dying. Howling demons waging war against life.” - Claire Diane
Shot through with the same kind of bebop bravado that was defining a new era of cinema across the world in the '60s, the anarchic descent into amoral madness that is THE WARPED ONES sounded a lost generation’s cry for help and was one of the films that kicked off Japan’s cinematic new wave with a bang.
“More breathless than BREATHLESS but with a real evil streak. Sweat and jazz exploding into the sun. Wanting to die but never dying. Howling demons waging war against life.” - Claire Diane
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