A stunning ‘ethnographic’ work by Imamura about the age-old clash between ritualistic tradition and disruptive modernity as a Tokyo engineer visits an isolated island in order to develop it, only to find a superstitious, and even, incestuous, family dictating the law of the land.
At times exasperating or perplexing, but Imamura’s sly and unorthodox attempt at blurring the lines between fiction and fact ultimately says something about the artifice of cinema when its subjects have nothing more to say.
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Eternality Tan 