Movie: Boy
AKA: Shônen
Genre: Drama
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Writer: Tsutomu Tamura
Release Date: 1969
Runtime: 97min
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Cast:
Fumio Watanabe ... The father
Akiko Koyama ... The stepmother
Tetsuo Abe ... The boy
Tsuyoshi Kinoshita ... The little brother
Plot:
Boy recounts the true story, one that briefly shocked Japan in 1966, of a married couple who trained their ten-year-old child to fake being hit by cars so they could collect damages from the shaken drivers. Oshima brilliantly employs this simple tale in a complex double portrait – of the desperate family, driven to callous extortion and exploitation, and the grasping society in which they live, one the director holds accountable for their actions. With rigorous empathy, Oshima portrays the father, who was a soldier in the war and whose wounds are both real and symbolic; the hard-nosed stepmother, "the worst outlaw of all" according to Oshima; and their two children, the unblinking boy who throws his small body against speeding metal to ensure the family's survival, and his mercifully uncomprehending baby brother. Stunningly shot in Scope throughout Japan (including snowy Hokkaido), with charged use of colour, composition, and unnerving music, Boy was for Oshima both an objective view of a dire situation and what the director called "a prayer." His tender, matter-of-fact treatment of the boy has rarely been equalled in cinema for its evocation of a child's apprehension of the world.
General:
Format.......: Matroska
File Size....: 1490,33 MiB
Duration.....: 1h 37mn
Bitrate......: 2 133 Kbps
Subtitles....: English, French
Source.......: DVD9
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Video:
Video Format......: AVC
Video Codec.......: x264 - core 115 r1995 c1e60b9
Bitrate...........: 1 898 Kbps
Frame Rate........: 23.976 fps
Aspect Ratio......: 2.35:1
Resolution........: 720x304
Audio #1:
Format..........: AC-3
Bitrate.........: 192 Kbps
Channels........: 2 channels
Sampling Rate...: 48.0 KHz
Language........: Japanese
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