The Red Spectacles
(Jigoku no banken: akai megane)
Mamoru Oshii
- 1987
- Japan
- Action / Science-fiction
- 1h56mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Exclusive
New 4K master
1995. The future. After a three year exile, a member of a disbanded police unit returns to haunt the city, looking for his former comrades and his enemies.
The first live action movie by Mamoru Oshii, this cursed film is reborn with this restored version thanks to crowdfunding by thousands of devoted fans. Defying classification, The Red Spectacles inaugurates the Kerberos militia saga and imposes itself as a laboratory for a cinema that follows no rules but its own. With a score by Kenji Kawai, it announces both the contemplative melancholy and dystopia of Avalon and the grotesque slapstick of Terayama’s underground theater. At the end of the film, we’re left with just one certainty: we can’t tell if we’ve just seen a hallucinated visual delirium… or if we dreamt it.
Screenings
09/09 • 16h00 • Screen 500
12/09 • 16h00 • Screen 300
Credits
- With : Shigeru Chiba, Machiko Washio, Hideyuki Tanaka...
- Screenplay : Kazunori Itō, Mamoru Oshii
- Photography : Yousuke Mamiya
- Editing : Seiji Morita
- Music by : Kenji Kawai
- Production : Daisuke Hayashi, Shigeharu Shiba
