Pale Flower - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) True Story “Like a Rolling Stone

“Like a Rolling Stone

one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film

The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers

In that spirit

conspiracy and betrayal

Pale Flower - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) True Story “Like a Rolling StoneIn this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful and enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path. Bewitchingly shot and edited, and laced with a fever dream like score by Toru Takemitsu, this gangster romance was a breakthrough for the idiosyncratic Masahiro Shinoda. The pitch black Pale Flower