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By Nolan F (50) on 15 Aug 2007

The best thing about this movie to me is the title. I feel like it failed to escalate much…

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By Tsubaki S (265) on 09 Aug 2007

This movie is just excellent. Ken Ogata was just fantastic here, he really portrayed evil down to a T…

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By Jesse O (1,397) on 09 Aug 2007

This movie is just excellent. Ken Ogata was just fantastic here, he really portrayed evil down to a T…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 09 Aug 2007

As messy as murder itself, Vengeance is Mine maps out the darker corners of a nation in transition and unwilling to confront its past directly…

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By Robert O (210) on 05 Aug 2007

Fascinating character study. One of the finest films I have ever seen…

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By Eduardo A (141) on 01 Aug 2007

This movie follows Iwao Enokizu and his 78 day run from the law for the murder of two of his co-workers and more during the manhunt…

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By Kevin M (2,627) on 25 Jul 2007

Ken Ogata is maniac in this film!, borrow it from me, but return it..or I will kill youu…

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By Tad T (16) on 24 Jul 2007

Bizarre true-life tale of a serial murderer who is as much driven by anomic rejection of Japanese social norms as by any sense of inner psychopathy…

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By X. T (149) on 12 Jul 2007

Iwao Enokizu is a con artist, a seducer of women, and a murderer, . What drives him to commit these crimes…

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By Jerod H (9) on 02 Jul 2007

An epic serial killer film that melds tabloid nonfiction and social critique of post WWII Japanese culture in a fluid punk rock style…

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By Kenneth W (72) on 02 Jul 2007

An expression of resistance to communal conventions.this movie is more about the society that spawned this character then it is with the acts…

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By Jack F (599) on 22 Jun 2007

June 23, 2007 - Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (New print) Imamura traces the origins of Iwao's revenge to a primal scene of humiliation that…

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By Paul D (6,077) on 22 Jun 2007

Fantastic. blew me away. see it for yourself…

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By Thomas W (1,104) on 18 Jun 2007

Criterion is slowly but surely getting Imamura's work on video store shelves (or at least the obscure ones that I frequent), and they've recently…

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By Victor D (139) on 12 Jun 2007

This was a fairly slow and in places confusing film. Despite this however, the overall result was quite compelling…

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By Nyk P (339) on 12 Jun 2007

This was a fairly slow and in places confusing film. Despite this however, the overall result was quite compelling…

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By Mark S (2,772) on 11 Jun 2007

Truly Epic, perhaps the best Imamura movie I've seen…

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By Mathieu C (99) on 11 Jun 2007

Increadible film about a real life murderer on the loose…

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By Jeremy Heilman (393) for MovieMartyr.com (391) on 15 Jul 2003

Quite literally, Imamura has created here a protagonist that's impossible to put easily to rest, and the ramifications of his examination reflect…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Oct 1992

At times a frustrating experience, Vengeance Is Mine transforms over the course of its running time, Enokizu’s impenetrable nature eventually…

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