The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Underworld Beauty
When
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the screening of this film has been cancelled. It has been replaced by The Madness of Youth.
Michitaro Mizushima plays a principled ex-con committed to using some hidden diamonds to make redress to his crippled partner as well as his partner’s titular sister (Mari Shiraki). Suzuki’s first anamorphic film boasts a visual style – strikingly lensed by cinematographer Toshitaro Nakao – which transcends its B-movie budget, while the familiar noir tropes and milieu are enlivened by the director’s typically subversive humour and jazzily impure style.
This watershed film also marks Suzuki’s first collaboration with the prolific composer Naozumi Yamamoto (Gate of Flesh and Branded to Kill, amongst others).
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