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The sentiment behind so many of Vancouver’s off-the-wall shows is: why not?
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The sentiment behind so many of Vancouver’s off-the-wall shows is: why not?
A scene from “Burai” (Provided by Rabbit House Co.) Director Kazuyuki Izutsu’s sympathetic portrayals of social outsiders have culminated in “Burai” (Outlaw), his first film in eight years, which follows a yakuza gang leader’s postwar life in the Showa Era (1926-1989). The story begins in 1956, when the economic white paper declared that Japan was no longer “postwar” because of its miraculous recovery from the ravages of World War II. Masaji Ito, a junior high school student living in a provincial city, beats up his selfish father and starts working as a day laborer. After his...