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Kuroi taiyo

Kuroi taiyo

1964
1h 35m
An African American GI and a Japanese Jazz-lover find themselves on the run from the law together. (Summary by PeaceAnarchy)
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Kuroi taiyo

1964
1h 35m
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Avg Percentile 51.49% from 40 total ratings

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Rated 31 Mar 2012
70
41st
Well, that was quite the little flight of fancy (lol). A guy who surely must've been dropped on his head early in life--a sort of hyperactive Japanese Jim Ignatowski--meets up with a desperate GI on the lam. Neither of them can understand the other, which only adds to the hijinx. Then, after a good deal of symbolism and that sort of thing have intruded into the works, by the end nobody is even able to remember what reality looks like anymore.
Rated 25 Oct 2015
100
0th
"There must have been a strain of corruption in Japanese politics at the time." http://illusionpodcast.blogspot.com/2015/06/episode-61-new-j-wave-part-one-here.html
Rated 31 Jul 2014
83
74th
I'm not entirely sure what this is supposed to be, but I like it. It's a quasi-follow-up to Kurahara's "The Warped Ones", with Kawachi's rabid delinquent at odds with Chico Roland's desperate GI (in an amped up, sometimes incoherent but weirdly watchable performance). It's like a cross between a buddy-outlaw flick, perverse outsider art about race relations and post-apocalyptic road movie, all tied together with Kurahara's restless but consistently entertaining style.
Rated 05 Feb 2012
72
41st
One doesn't expect a very complex statement on the plight of black Americans from a Japanese director but it's a sympathetic outlook with some intriguing nuances. One of the stronger elements is the blistering score. Another highlight is Kurahara's vision of Tokyo as an apocalyptic wasteland. However, if the film has a weakness, it's Roland. His dialogue is often incomprehensible. The weakest of the Kurahara I've seen so far, but I'd like to see it again. Its off-kilter tone is hard to pin down.
Rated 14 Nov 2018
50
34th
This is one movie that completely fails due to the piss poor acting from Chico Roland. The soundtrack and story as weird and in your face as it is was interesting.

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