A thief, murderer, and charming lady-killer, Iwao is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story, of the seventy-three-day kilIing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly CathoIic famiIy, into a cold, perverse, and, at times, diaboIically funny taIe of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime case, Vengeance Is Mine bares mankind's snarIing id. |