If you loved Inn of Evil, try Black River
Un ponte tra un film che hai già visto e uno che quasi nessuno ha incrociato. Questo è ciò che condividono, e ciò che il secondo fa che il primo non fa.
Cosa condividono
Both films are directed by Masaki Kobayashi, and they both carry the bittersweet, dread mood tags, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Inn of Evil, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Black River is
You live in a riverside town where kindness is currency and cruelty walks free. Then a visiting student arrives with his idealistic girlfriend and an uninvited guest whose grin hides a switchblade. Masaki Kobayashi’s 1957 Kaneto Shindō script pinches postwar Japan’s slack law like a vise left to rust. The film walks away with nothing resolved.

