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Our Blood Will Not Forgive (1964)

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Our Blood Will Not Forgive

Seijun Suzuki | Japan | 1964 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

When

Wed 30 Jul 2025

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Released at the point of the Japanese “pop” auteur’s stylistic breakthrough in the mid-1960s, Suzuki’s bold film depicts two brothers, played by popular Nikkatsu stars Hideki Takahashi and Akira Kobayashi, who unite to avenge their father’s death at the hands of the yakuza.

Though the film has never received the same amount of recognition as Suzuki’s other works from this period, and hasn’t been widely screened in later years, it is a striking work that sports the director’s singular use of bold colours, expressive rear projection, dynamic soundtrack and absurdist shootouts.

35mm print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.

Format: 35mm
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Source: Japan Foundation
Courtesy: Japan Foundation
Runtime: 97 mins

Event duration

97 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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