| Gate of Flesh | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Seijun Suzuki |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Kaneo Iwai |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Shigeyoshi Mine |
| Music by | Naozumi Yamamoto |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
Release dates | |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Gate of Flesh (Japanese: 肉体の門, Hepburn: Nikutai no mon) is a 1964 Japanese film based on a novel by Taijiro Tamura and directed by Seijun Suzuki.[1][2][3] The first of Suzuki's "flesh trilogy" (followed by Story of a Prostitute and Carmen from Kawachi), the series is considered the "crowning achievement" of his period working at the production house Nikkatsu.[4][5] The film is viewed as a direct and allegorical critique of Japan's Occupation and subsequent development, which rather than breaking with the country's pre-war militaristic, authoritarian social structures only sees their reconstitution in the post-war period.[6][7]
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- ^ Yacavone, Peter A. (2023). Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist: The Films of Suzuki Seijun. University of Michigan Press. p. 171.
- ^ Ingle, Zachary (1 January 2015). "Seijun Suzuki: Transcending Genre, Offending Nikkatsu". In Berra, John (ed.). Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3. Intellect Books. pp. 168–172. ISBN 978-1-78320-404-5.