Vengeance Is Mine (1979 film)

Vengeance Is Mine Japanese title , fukush suru wa ware ni ari is a 1979 film directed by Shhei Imamura, based on the book of the same name by Ryz Saki. It depicts the true story of serial killer Akira Nishiguchi Iwao Enokizu in the film.

The films story is told in a series of flashbacks. In the opening scenes, Iwao Enokizu Ken Ogata, is a prisoner of the police. A huge crowd of journalists and an angry mob greets him as he enters a cell. The police quiz him but he refuses to answer. The story goes back to the initial murders. Enokizu tricks and then kills two men and steals a large sum of money. He puts on a suit and disappears. Enokizu travels to another city. At the train station, he asks a taxi driver to take him to an inn where he can get a prostitute. Enokizu is sexually insatiable. He tells the innkeeper, a woman called Haru Mayumi Ogawa, that he is a professor at Kyoto University. The police, searching for Enokizu, put out bulletins with his face on television. The prostitute thinks the professor is Enokizu, but she is told not to go to the police because of her job.Enokizus background is the son of a Catholic father Rentaro Mikuni who lost his fishing boats to the Japanese navy in the 1930s. Enokizu is a rebellious, violent child. As a young man, he is convicted and imprisoned. His mother is ill. His wife Mitsuko Baisho is attracted to his father. She divorces Enokizu, but then is persuaded by Enokizus father to remarry him, due to the fathers Catholic beliefs. After the remarriage, she tries to seduce the father, but fails. Enokizu accuses her of sleeping with his father when he was in prison. ........

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