Coup d'état
First screened in May 2013
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida. Cast: Rentarô Mikuni, Yasuyo Mastumura, Tadahiko Sugano, Kei Iinuma, Kazunaga Tsuji, Masako Yagi, Taketoshi Naitô, Yasuo Miyake, Akiko Kurano. Screenplay: Minoru Betsuyaku. Twitter Capsule:
Tense, elegantly composed Japanese insurrection drama. Maybe too cool? Filmmakers' stratagems clearer than characters'.
VOR:④
I'm admittedly underschooled, but I've never seen a film on this subject or a Japanese drama composed in quite this way. Traces of Shinoda, Imamura, but impressively its own thing.
