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The Sun's Burial
JAPAN · 1960

The Sun's Burial

Nagisa Oshima
poverty osaka, japan post war japan prostitution youth gang
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Synopsis

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

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