Fukušú suru wa ware ni ari

A thief, murderer, and charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story, of the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family, into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny tale of the primitive coexisting with the modern. (Criterion)