Saint Terrorism

Director: Masashi Yamamoto, Masashi Yamamoto, Masashi Yamamoto

1980 / 127min / DCP

An angel-faced thrill-kill murderess provides the link between the various interwoven stories that make up Saint Terrorism, Yamamoto’s fantastic, downright apocalyptic vision of loners and criminal outsiders in Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood, living at odds with Japanese society as it races towards globalization and the money-mad ’80s. A defiant snarl of a film from Yamamoto, whose Carnival in the Night would become a phenomenon at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1983.