Duplo Suicídio em Amijima (1969)

The influence of the kabuki theater in Japanese cinema has been fairly marginal, the assumption being that kabuki modes of acting and staging are generally unsuited to the cinema. Both films reproduces forms of kabuki as a central dramatic device. Oshima’s Diary of a Shinjuku Thief reproduces a primitive form of kabuki while Shinoda’s approach is more traditional.