
The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Underworld Beauty
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.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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