Get us in your inbox

I, the Executioner

  • Film
Advertising

Time Out says

Up there with Oshima's Violence at Noon and Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine as one of Japan's most disturbing anatomies of a serial killer, Kato's shattering film eschews suspense (it confronts male violence against women head-on from its very first shot) in favour of mystery. What links the murders of five women with the suicide of a 16-year-old delivery boy? Plodding cops (one with a bad case of piles) investigate, and solarised flashbacks eventually provide a denouement, but the near metaphysical ending ensures that the mystery somehow lingers. Kato anchors it in location-shot observation of Tokyo's quotidian realities, which makes the unorthodox approach to questions of sexual politics all the more bracing.
Written by TR

Release Details

  • Duration:90 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Tai Kato
  • Screenwriter:Haruhiko Mimura
  • Cast:
    • Makoto Sato
    • Chieko Baisho
    • Sanae Nakahara
    • Kin Sugai
    • Yoshiko Sawa
    • Oh Ran-Fan
Advertising
You may also like
You may also like