Gate of Flesh Reviews

"Gate of Flesh" is a portrait of postwar Japanese society, trying to survive among the still smoldering ashes of the devastated buildings. A group of prostitutes in the ruined lives inside one of them. The film focuses primarily on the special relationship between them and their self-imposed but inviolable code of rules.

Its director, Seijun Suzuki, boasts stunning aesthetics, staggering at times. Never mind that the sets of a ruined Tokyo are displayed in a motley mix of bright colors that exude cardboard, because what seems to be pursued is a forced sense of unreality. The fabulous presentation of the four major players in monochrome frames unreal, deserves special attention as it is a model of avant-garde comics. Their casual clothes are the fashion pop in full swing at the time of filming. The sequences in which pleasure and pain go hand in hand exude sensuality unprejudiced. Even the imagination of girls come alive in the form of delusional and very accurate overlays. In short, is a movie that breaks the mold due to the high modernism of the language used.

It is also appreciated to make a clean sweep with the history of imperial Japan lost the war. Having taken the defeat, Suzuki seems to pose a carefree and colorful view of the uncertain future of Japanese, in direct opposition to the usual pessimistic and black and white dramas that proliferated in the land of the rising sun after the Second World War.

Big bet for a film that surprises seen today think their carrying nearly 50 years ago! It will be very difficult for the time cause some kind of havoc on this movie ...