Based on true story of serial killer Akira Nishiguchi.
Was the last live action film shot entirely in the VistaVision format until the release of The Brutalist (2024) in 2024.
Voted one of the best films of all time by Bong Joon-Ho in the Sight & Sound Poll
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #384.
This marked Shohei Imamura's return to fiction films in approximately a decade after spending the early 1970s directing documentaries.
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