Hit and Run

(Hikinige)
(Moment of Terror)

35mm Archival Print

featuring

Hideko Takamine, Yoko Tsukasa, Eitaro Ozawa, Jin Nakayama,

Hit and Run, the chronicle of a fatal collision and its aftermath, reveals the stark inequalities of Japan’s rapid economic growth in the 1960s. Kuniko (Hideko Takamine) is a working-class single mother whose grief at the loss of her young son becomes a calculated quest for revenge when she learns the identity of the driver responsible. As author Catherine Russell observed, car accidents are ubiquitous in Mikio Naruse’s oeuvre and the director “depicts automobiles as a demonic machine of modernity, grinding the bodies of women, children, and the serving class in its gears and spitting them out as dead and damaged.”

Kate MacKay
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Zenzo Matsuyama
Cinematographer
  • Rokuro Nishigaki
Language
  • Japanese
  • with English electronic subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • 100 mins
Source
  • National Film Archive Japan
Permission
  • Toho

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