Diary of a Shunjuku Thief (Oshima, 1969): Close-Up Cinema, 8.15pm
This film is showing as part of the Deviant Traditions of Desire: Asian Cinema at the Intersection of Folklore and Transgressive Desire season at Close-Up Cinema.
Time Out review:
One of Nagisha Oshima's most teasing and provocative collages, inspired by the
student riots of '68 and contemporary 'youth culture' generally. The
main thread running through it is the relationship between a passive and
vaguely effeminate young man and an aggressive and vaguely masculine
young woman. They meet when he steals books and she poses as a shop
assistant who catches him in the act; they spend the rest of the movie
trying to reach satisfactory orgasms with each other. Their route takes
them through a dizzying mixture of fact and fiction, from an encounter
with a real-life sexologist to involvement in a 'fringe' performance of a
neo-primitive kabuki show. The logical connections are there, but
they're deliberately submerged in a welter of contrasting moods, styles
and lines of thought.
Tony Rayns
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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