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The Catch
JAPAN · 1961

The Catch

Nagisa Oshima
war crimes racial prejudice isolation moral ambiguity prisoner of war
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Synopsis

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.

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