The last film in Criterion's Eclipse Series 21: Oshima's Outlaw Sixties was Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968). It is probably one of his strangest films about three students who go for a swim in Kyushu and have their clothes stolen by two AWOL Korean soldiers who were trying to escape fighting in Vietnam for the US. Almost halfway through the film it restarts and the story unfolds in a different manner than the previous run through. Oshima is making statements about the treatment of Korean immigrants, global policies of the US in a manner that is far from conventional. (I had previously seen Sing A Song Of Sex (1967) and choose not to re-watch it this time).
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