Tai Katô’s highly stylised & often-seedy tale of revenge is definitely not for the faint hearted! Five women sexually molest a 16-year-old delivery boy & drive him to suicide. Like Oshima’s Violence at Noon & Imamura’s Vengeance is Mine, this legendary exploitation film portrays the disturbing anatomy of a serial killer. Stars Makoto Satô as the revenge-driven killer who sets out to avenge his friend’s suicide by appointing himself judge, jury & executioner.
Director: Tai Katô. AKA I, the Executioner / Requiem for a Massacre
Writers: Tadashi Hiromi (story), Tai Katô, Haruhiko Mimura, Yôji Yamada. みな殺しの霊歌
Stars: Junko Toda, Chieko Baisho, Yuki Kawamura, Sanae Nakahara, Ran Fan O, Makoto Satô, Kin Sugai.
Cinematographer: Keiji Maruyama.
Composer: Hajime Kaburagi.
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What a nasty piece of work, but essential.
Would also appreciate an upload of the MKV – thank you!
Try not to be fooled by the very brutal opening scene because once you get through it, you will see that although this is a dark movie, it’s not a gratuitous sleaze fest but a deeply melancholic character study that was way ahead of it’s time. Released in the 1960s “I, the executioner” holds up very well as a thought-provoking thriller that deserves a wider audience