The Catch

The film is a relentlessly savage fable about a Japanese mountain village whose inhabitants accidentally capture a black American airman only a few weeks before the 1945 capitulation. The 'prisoner of war' acts as a catalyst, bringing out all the repressed aggression and latent political conflicts beneath the tradition-girded surface of the community.

Direction

Nagisa Ōshima

Screenplay

Toshirô Ishidô

Toshio Matsumoto

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Tsutomu Tamura

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Shômei Tômatsu

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Kenzaburô Ôe