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Tattooed Life
Seijun Suzuki Retrospective
Apr 27
(Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1965, 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles, 87 min)
Wednesday, Apr 27 at 07:30PM
Set in the 1930s, Tattooed Life is the story of two brothers: Kenji, an art student, and Tetsu, who is working as a yakuza to help pay for Kenjis tuition. When a hit job goes horribly wrong, the brothers flee. They end up finding work in a mineand falling in love with the owners wife and daughter. But will Tetsus gang tattoos reveal the brothers secret past? The first film to earn Suzuki a warning about going too far from his Nikkatsu bosses, Tattooed Life contains one of his most iconic and audacious violations of film form: a final fight scene in which the floor suddenly and illogically disappears, and the action is filmed from below the actors feet.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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