The Sun's Burial

About The Sun's Burial

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

The Sun's Burial (1960) is a crime film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. At 88 minutes long, it arrived in August 1960.

Its themes are prostitution, poverty, blood, and post war japan.

Masahiko Tsugawa stars as Shin, Kayoko Honoo as Hanako, Isao Sasaki as Takeshi, and Fumio Watanabe as Yosehei. The screenplay is by Nagisa Ōshima and Toshirō Ishidō. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.

Pigs and Battleships, Gate of Flesh, and Monster make useful companions to The Sun's Burial, all filed under japanese new wave.