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A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family—into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime tale, Vengeance Is Mine bares humanity’s snarling id.
Original Release
04/21/1979
US Release
10/17/1979
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Ken Ogata | Iwao Enokizu |
Rentaro Mikuni | Shizuo Enokizu |
Chôchô Miyako | Kayo Enokizu |
Mitsuko Baisho | Kazuko Enokizu |
Mayumi Ogawa | Haru Asano |
Nijiko Kiyokawa | Hisano Asano |
Taiji Tonoyama | Tanejirô Shibata / Tanejiro Shibata |
Goro Tarumi | Daihachi Baba |
Moeko Ezawa | Chiyoko Hata |
Kazuko Shirakawa | Sachiko Yoshizato / Sachiko |
Directors
Writers
Ryûzô Saki, Masaru Baba, Shunsaku Ikehata
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ken Ogata | Iwao Enokizu |
Rentaro Mikuni | Shizuo Enokizu |
Chôchô Miyako | Kayo Enokizu |
Mitsuko Baisho | Kazuko Enokizu |
Mayumi Ogawa | Haru Asano |
Nijiko Kiyokawa | Hisano Asano |
Taiji Tonoyama | Tanejirô Shibata / Tanejiro Shibata |
Goro Tarumi | Daihachi Baba |
Moeko Ezawa | Chiyoko Hata |
Kazuko Shirakawa | Sachiko Yoshizato / Sachiko |
Furankî Sakai | Inspector Kawai |
Torahiko Hamada | Agent Yoshino / Investigator Yoshino |
Yasuhisa Sonoda | Inspector assistant Kuwata / Inspector Kuwata |
Akira Hamada | Detective Ichikawa |
Kazunaga Tsuji | Detective Kuchiishi |
Kazuo Kitamura | Haru's master / Shigomi Deike |
Shohei Hino | Haru's mahjong friend |
Toshie Negishi | Keiko Oka / Cane Girl |
Ryûzô Saki | Asano no Kyaku / Asano's Customer |
Choichiro Kawarasaki | Pawnshop owner |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Hisashi Iino | Producer |
Kazuo Inoue | Producer |
Toshiyuki Mizorogi | Producer |
Shinji Soshizaki | Producer |
Kunio Takeshige | Producer |
Takashi Tsukinoki | Producer |