The Horizon Glitters
Aug 07 - Aug 08, 2013
(Michiyoshi Doi, Japan, 1961, Blu-ray, 89 min)
Part of our Double Feature: Busting Out of Bars!
Sponsored by The North American Post
This black comedy about a prison break gone wrong was unlike anything else Shintoho made. Released just before the studio’s collapse, The Horizon Glitters is a brilliant one-off that doesn’t fit in the usual genre boxes, made with a freedom and an energy that verges on the anarchic. A motor-mouthed proto-punk breaks out of prison with his cellmates, in search of a large cache of diamonds. Director Michiyoshi Doi spices the journey with incidents and antics that are a mix of slapstick and surreal.
- Part of our Shintoho double feature Busting Out Of Bars (August 7 - 8). See two films on one evening at a special price: $9/Film Forum Members, $15/General.
- Get a Shintoho series pass and see all of the films in Shintoho at a discount: $30/Film Forum Members, $50/General