Ryoji Asami

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946. Winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.