“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found several of them who had remained in Thailand. Two years later, I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home. During the filming, my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his ‘vicious brother.’ I was shocked, and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene. By the next morning, to my relief, Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother. But I couldn’t have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking.” —Shôhei Imamura
Credits
Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home Cast
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Character |
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Shohei Imamura
He was 46, 79 years old when he died
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as Himself |
Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home Crew
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Department |
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Shohei Imamura as Director. He was 46 (79) years old when He died
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Directing |