Vengeance Is Mine [Criterion Collection]

Shohei Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine is a character study of a habitual Japanese criminal and murderer (Ken Ogata), told entirely in flashbacks. Imamura's visual style is distinctive, filled with disturbing, nearly hallucinogenic images, and his plot structure is unconventional, winding back and forth between the present and past. The result is a haunting portrait of a criminal mind.