KUROTOKAGE

KUROTOKAGE (“Black Lizard”) Production: Japan, 1968 Director: Fukasaku Kinji Category: Crime Based on a novella of the criminal underbelly by Edogawa Rampo, and starring fascist author Yukio Mishima with transvestite Akihiro Maruyama. An earlier version of Kurotokage, starring the glamorous Machiko Kyo, was a more straightforward but still stylized “crime Continue Reading