Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

Director: Nagisa Oshima
Genre: Comedy, Erotic Drama, Drama, Japanese Movies
Year: 1969
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese Language
Starring: Tadanori Yokoo, Rie Yokoyama, Moichi Tanabe, Tetsu Takahashi, Fumio Watanabe, Juro Kara, Situation Players, Maki Fujiwara, Noboru Kuzu, Mansaku Fuwa

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (新宿泥棒日記 , Shinjuku dorobō nikki) is a 1968 Japanese New Wave film directed by Nagisa Oshima.

The film centers around Birdie, a young, Japanese book thief who soon is caught by a woman named Umeko. As they become young lovers, the two begin stealing books together.

The film, which starts out in black and white, turns into a fiasco of color, music, sex, and surrealism.

Also featured in this film is Kara Jūrō who sings a song accompanied with a guitar. As the film climaxes we are transported from a rough life of crime to odd world of such oddities as Birdie chasing Umeko with a dildo, only to conclude with her being raped and him being beaten by the offenders.

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