Diary Of A Shinjuku Thief
| Diary of a Shinjuku Thief | |
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The Japanese poster
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| Directed by | Nagisa Oshima |
| Written by | Nagisa Oshima Mamoru Sasaki Masao Adachi Takeshi Tamura |
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Tadanori Yokoo Rie Yokoyama Kei Satō Jūrō Kara Moichi Tanabe Tetsu Takahashi |
| Cinematography | Sēzō Sengen Yasuhiro Yoshioka |
| Edited by | Nagisa Oshima |
| Distributed by | Sōzōsha Art Theatre Guild |
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Release date
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Running time
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96 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (新宿泥棒日記? Shinjuku Dorobō Nikki) is a 1968 Japanese New Wave film directed by Nagisa Oshima.
The film centers around Birdie, a young Japanese book thief who is caught by a store clerk named Umeko. As their encounters grow increasingly fraught with tension and desire, the two become lovers and begin committing thefts together.
Roger Greenspun of The New York Times called most of the film dull "with an air of having been produced only for purposes of demonstration", concluding that "the result is a high-powered sterility in the midst of much energetic busyness." The film was described by Ronald Bergan of The Guardian as "an explosive agitprop movie equating sexual liberation with revolution, whose impact has cooled only marginally."
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