A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
