The Catch

You live in a remote Japanese village late in the Second World War. You capture an African-American pilot, a downed enemy. But Tokyo's orders never arrive. Oshima's early film questions wartime xenophobia.

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Nagisa Ōshima directed The Catch in 1961. See Nagisa Ōshima's full filmography, where to start with Nagisa Ōshima, or where to go after you've seen everything by Nagisa Ōshima.

The Catch was released in 1961 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 105 minutes.