Night and Fog in Japan
| Night and Fog in Japan | |
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| Directed by | Nagisa Ōshima |
| Written by | Nagisa Ōshima Toshirō Ishido |
| Produced by | Tomio Ikeda |
| Starring | Fumio Watanabe Miyuki Kuwano Takao Yoshizawa |
| Cinematography | Takashi Kawamata |
| Edited by | Keiichi Uraoka |
| Music by | Riichiro Manabe |
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| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Night and Fog in Japan (日本の夜と霧, Nihon no Yoru to Kiri) is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. It deals with the contemporary Zengakuren opposition but also evokes the 1950 protests against the Anpo treaty; this political content is related to the particular approach of memory and interpersonal dynamics of social movements in the film.
The film is often further interpreted as the weakness of the Japanese left throughout the late 1940s and 1950s, particularly as a result of Stalinist influence, in which many ideas within the film that could represent the Comintern are heavily critiqued.