| A thief, murderer, and charming lady-kilIer, Iwao is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story, of the seventy-three-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly CathoIic family, into a coId, perverse, and, at times, diabolicalIy funny tale of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime case, Vengeance ls Mine bares mankind's snarling id. |