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Underworld Beauty (1958)

The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present

Underworld Beauty

Seijun Suzuki | Japan | 1958 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

When

Wed 16 Jul 2025

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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).

35mm print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.

Format: 35mm
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Source: Japan Foundation
Courtesy: Japan Foundation
Runtime: 87 mins

Event duration

87 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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