Summer Soldiers (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1972) DVDRip VOSI

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FICHA TÉCNICA Y ARTÍSTICA
Título original: Sama Soruja
Año: 1972
País: Japón
Género: Drama
Color: Color
Duración: 107 minutos
Producción: Yukio Tomizawa
Dirección y Fotografía: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Guión: John Nathan.
Música: Tôru Takemitsu.
Montaje: Fusaku Shuzui
Intérpretes: Barry Cotton (Daryl), Lee Reisen (Relko), Keith Sykes (Jim), John Nathan (Pete), Kunie Tanaka (Fujimura), Hisashi Igawa (Ota), Hideo Kanze (Shimezu), Takeshi Kato (Driver), Toshiko Kobayashi (Mrs. Tachikawa), Kazuo Kitamura (Tachikawa), Greg Antonacci (Miguel), Tamao Nakamura (Mrs. Shimezu), Shoichi Ozawa (Tanikawa)

SINOPSIS
This fascinating Japanese drama takes an objective look at the relationship between American GIs and deserters in Japan during the Vietnam war. Many of the men went on leave to Tokyo. Some did not want to return and ended up sheltered by Japanese "host families" who would conceal them for a night. The story centers on the different experiences of an exhausted deserter, and a gung-ho soldier. Meanwhile, the Japanese "Deserter's Aid Committee" holds audiences with would-be dodgers.

His next feature-length project, four years later, was written by the American translator and biographer of Yukio Mishima, John Nathan. With the Vietnam War close by, Summer Soldiers (1972) tells the stories of two AWOL American GIs, adrift in the inhospitable refuge of a Japan committed to supporting the U.S. “war effort”. Shunted to and fro among host families of anti-war sympathizers, both men seek some natural haven and an end to being fugitives. At first encouraged by what they see as acceptance and understanding from the people they meet, they soon realize that they are political pawns being used to gratify anti-war sentiments of radical groups, as well as, paradoxically, their anti-Americanism. The GIs discover that there is no real place for them in Japan, except as fringe dwellers.

One would think from this synopsis that the film is intended as an anti-war statement. But Teshigahara is more interested in observing the dysfunctional relationship often experienced by foreigners in Japan. The American deserters are portrayed sympathetically, but their decision to desert, while perhaps saving their necks, introduces more problems for them than it solves.

For the first time, Teshigahara photographed the film himself, and resorted to a much more raw spontaneity in his choice and direction of the actors. There is an almost documentary feel to the film. It is also redolent of its times, which dates the film somewhat. But after the increasingly claustrophobic, and ultimately suffocating world of his Abe films, Summer Soldiers is a refreshing change of air.

After Summer Soldiers was completed, Teshigahara turned to his duties with the Sogetsu Foundation, of which his father had been master. On his father's death, he became the third generation iemoto of the school in 1980, which was so involving it prevented him from pursuing other projects. Finally, 12 years after Summer Soldiers, he had the opportunity to realize his long cherished ambition to devote a film entirely to the work of the architect Antonio Gaudi. The resulting 72-minute documentary is yet so limpid and lovely that it easily rivals his fiction films in artfulness.

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AVI File Details
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