猫头鹰 ふくろう (2003)

It is often said that comedy is the most untranslatable element from culture to culture. This is perhaps even more the case with surreal mixed genre films like this. In Shindo Kanetos film (his 101st!) the old sensei has given us a strange meditation on male lusts and womens struggle for independence. It is like a play in that the action takes place almost exclusively in a small cabin in a deserted region of Western Japan. A mother and daughter are stranded in a ghost town and are starving to death. They hit on a plan to get them out of their plight which involves exploiting the few men who stray into their cabin. They offer sexual services and then bump off the happy customers. All goes well until a local cop shows up and, then, a relation of theirs from way back.人们常说，喜剧是文化之间最不可译的元素。像这样的超现实主义混合类型电影可能更是如此。在Shindo Kaneto的电影(他的第101部电影!)中，这位老老师给了我们一个奇怪的思考:男人的欲望和女人争取独立的斗争。这就像一出戏，故事几乎完全发生在日本西部荒无人烟的一个小木屋里。一个母亲和女儿被困在一个鬼城，饿死了。他们想出了一个让他们摆脱困境的计划，其中包括剥削进入他们小屋的少数人。他们提供性服务，然后干掉那些快乐的顾客。一切都很顺利，直到一个当地警察出现，然后，他们的一个亲戚从很久以前。