433 - Patriotism or The Right of Love and Death (1966)

Content warning: this film contains depictions of suicide.

Come check out Mike and Charlie realizing exactly what they’ve gotten themself into AFTER watching this movie and getting about halfway through our discussion about it.  Yukio Mishima and Domoto Masaki’s rich confrontation of Noh-style staging with richly visualized sensuality propels a short film about a married couple’s suicided following a failed coup-d’etat in 1936 Japan.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Sergei Parajanov’s The Color of Pomogranates(1969).