 This year the Lighting
guerilla is joined by the
Slovenska kinoteka as well. A special screening of
this film by the Japanese
director Seijun Suzuki will be held within the
film retrospective program. Gorō
is a
professional hitman, and a first class one at
that. He ranks third at the
‘official’ ranking of the Japanese undeground. Of
course Gorō would like to be
on the very top of the ranking, but not knowing
who the first and the second are
he cannot ‘take care of that’. Pure coincidence
helps him with that: he manages
to kill the second best hitman while protecting a
client. The first ranked is
revealed to him later – as his stalker.
Due to a failed assassination – a
butterfly lands on Gorō’s sniper rifle right in
the critical moment – his
boss Yabuhara sends the first ranked after Gorō to
punish him. The hitman #1
turns out to be a sadist who likes to play with
his victims … Having seen this
film one cannot help but thoroughly rethink whom
to consider an iconoclast in
the future – this masterpiece sets a
seldom achieved norm. The film
itself is totally deconstructed, nothing stays as
it was before, it can be called
tabula rasa
and “after me, the
deluge”. Pánta
rhei.
(Rui Hortênsio da
Silva e Costa /
Österreichische
Filmmuseum) Slovenska Kinoteka is in
June preparing another film
screening dedicated to the role of light in films.
More details about this will
be published on the websites of Lighting guerrilla
and Slovenska Kinoteka.
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