Sunday, September 14 at 1.30, 5,8.15

Scuffle Elegy

(Elegy for a Quarrel)

Director: Seijun Suzuki. 1966. 86 minutes. R18

Suzuki is a kind of cult figure with young filmgoers in Japan, similar to American director Roger Corman. This film, set in the 1930s, is concerned with the hopes and frustrations of students. Its central character follows one ideology and has conflicts with another group; both are strongly militaristic. Suzuki's central concern is the frustrated idealism that exploded at the end of the thirties.