A thief, murderer, and charming Iady-kiIIer, Iwao is on the run from the poIice. Director Shohei lmamura turns this fact-based story, of the seventy-three-day kiIIing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic famiIy, into a cold, perverse, and, at times, diaboIically funny taIe of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime case, Vengeance Is Mine bares mankind's snarling id. |