The Catch

The Catch (1961)

22 Nov 1961 • Drama, War • 1h 45m
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The film is a relentlessly savage fable about a Japanese mountain village whose inhabitants accidentally capture a black American airman only a few weeks before the 1945 capitulation. The 'prisoner of war' acts as a catalyst, bringing out all the repressed aggression and latent political conflicts beneath the tradition-girded surface of the community.

Nagisa Ôshima
Director
Toshirô Ishidô, Toshio Matsumoto, Tsutomu Tamura
Writer
Rentarô Mikuni, Akiko Koyama, Yôko Mihara
Starring

Language: Japanese
Awards: 1 win
Country: Japan
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6.8

IMDb (304 votes)
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