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The Suzuki Method
Gate of Flesh
Nikutai No Mon
Japan
| 1964 | Seijun Suzuki
Seijun Suzuki’s soft-porn masterpiece is a lurid, anti-American tale of prostitutes and black marketeers in the bombed-out slums of postwar Tokyo. In another’s hands, this subject might have called for black and white cinematography and a gritty newsreel aesthetic (à la Italian neorealism). But Suzuki employs garish colors and cinemascope to heighten the harshness of his vision—“like the blush and lipstick in a funeral home that somehow make the dead look even deader” (David Chute).
Subtitles. 35mm. 90 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
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