Hishu monogatari

My favorite Suzuki so far. The plot might seem a bit convoluted to some but to me that is one of its biggest strenghts. It feels like watching two or three very short but very good films. The first one a sports movie, the second one a really good suspenseful thriller and the third one just pure madness. The last segment of the film felt to me (who has just first watched this film in 2022) like Aronofsky's Mother but significantly better and its not even fair to compare. I always thought Seijun Suzuki was really good but in this one he is absolutely killing it. The visuals, the colors, that one tone of green (if you watched fang in the hole you know what tone im talking about), the soundtrack (and sometimes the abscence of it) the pacing, everything. Really really impressed by this one.