Film
The Scythian Lamb
- Director
- Daihachi Yoshida
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 126 mins
How to solve the problem of declining rural population? One novel solution might be to parole a bunch of convicted murderers and relocate them to a sleepy seaside resort without informing the residents. That’s what happens in Daihachi Yoshida‘s darkly comic thriller, which is based on the manga story by Yamagami Tatsuhiko and Igarashi Mikio. Inevitably, however, the truth about these six newly arrived strangers soon begins to leak out…
It’s screened as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019.
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