Shinji Aoyama makes films about extreme emotional dysfunction and dislocation, whose central characters include victims and perpetrators of desperate acts and terrible crimes — sometimes within the same person.
A deeply knowledgeable film scholar, whose tastes run the gamut from Robert Bresson to Toei yakuza pics, Aoyama injects genre elements into his films while rejecting genre cliches and taking a distanced stance.
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