Boy (Shonen) (Nagisa Oshima, 1969)

[aguijon]

Título: Boy Título V.O: Shonen Director: Nagisa Oshima Año/País: 1969 / Japón Duración: 105 minutos Género: Drama Reparto: Tetsuo Abe, Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita Enlaces: ATG · Subs Ficha de: aguijon

[aguijon]

A more straightforward movie from Oshima. It may appear very cold, given the sentimental nature of the subject, but it does develop Oshima's marvelous propaganda tone towards the end. Yu Do-yun, the convict R from Koshikei, makes a cameo appearance as one of the victim drivers.

A film that may be less obviously formally experimental than some of Oshima's contemporary works, but is no less politically charged, Boy follows in the footsteps of Death by Hanging in questioning Japan's relationship with it's marginalized, or poor people. Looking like a sequel to the montage documentary Diary of a Yunbogi Boy made a few years earlier for television, Boy is one of Oshima's most humanist films.

Boy can be read from a multitude of angles: as coming of age story, family melodrama, deconstruction and reconstruction of the "scam" film (with an overt connection to some of Oshima's earlier films, especially Cruel Story of Youth), and above all, a socio-political examination of the desperate bottom rung of post-war Japan. A nameless Japanese boy is brought up by a WWII veteran father and apathetic step-mother pulling scams, in which the boy plays innocent bystander victim, where car accidents are faked and capitalized upon.

While some found the film to be a step backward for Oshima, many consider it one of his greatest achievements, and Tamura Takeshi took home both Kinema Jumpo and Mainichi awards for best screenplay in 1970 for it. Jonathan Rosenbaum picked it as one of his favourite films for 1969, and Dereck Malcolm says that it's "linked to a warmth of expression that Oshima has seldom emulated since."

[krillov]

Gracias, aguijon .

[krillov]

ciruja, de DXC, va a traducir ésta y "The man who left his will on film" .

[candelita]

Mil gracias. Estoy descargando poco a poco todas las películas de Oshima. Hay quienes dicen que esta es su obra maestra.

[helge79]

Hay quienes dicen que esta es su obra maestra.

My private opinion is that it is fairly minor. I personally adore Koshikei, and find The man who left his will on film, The Treatise of Bawdy Songs and the Shinjuku Thief very interesting...

[aguijon]

Hi, helge!
Please, could you confirm us these Oshima's rips are yours?
(in order to credit you in our film card...)

[holleymartins]

Downloading ....

Thanks helge   .

[holleymartins]

Ciruja, de DXC, ha traducido los subtítulos. Muchas gracias colega .

De momento nos ha dejado el e-link a los subs en español.

[Gandalfmetal]

Pinchada.

[acbarra]

Recomendable pelicula. Como se nota que Oshima es el Godard nipón, por su arriesgada, brillante y confusa narrativa que hace que en conjunto tenga algunos altibajos. Los momentos del protagonista junto a su hermano pequeño en la nieve tardaré tiempo en olvidarlos. Un 7.

[maurazos]

Me pareció un peliculón. Lejos de las películas más experimentales que solía hacer el Oshima de aquella época, pero es una peli con una fuerte carga social, aderezada con un estilo road movie que la convierte en un producto más atractivo si cabe. Además, es una peli que tengo la sensación de que debió marcar a cineastas posteriores: el niño de Boy me suena mucho a los niños de las pelis Kitano. Y lo de arrojarse a los coches simulando accidentes para sobornar a los conductores es algo que Kitano vuelve a utilizar, aunque sea en tono paródico, en Kantoku Banzai.

Yo le pongo un 9/10.

Saludos

[monsieur lange]

Gracias aguijón. Otro Oshima más para la cesta.