The Warped Ones (Kyônetsu no kisetsu)
Directed by Koreyoshi Kurohara
Written by Nobuo Yamada
1960/Japan
Nikkatsu
First viewing/FilmStruck
I wouldn’t mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan. Donald Trump
Warped is right.
Three delinquents are released from the reformatory. They are all weirdos who immediately revert to their lives of crime and meanness. The lead weirdo is also a jazz fanatic who makes the funniest faces seen outside a zoo.
Early on the group attacks a journalist and his girlfriend who helped lock them up. They strike the man with their stolen car and abduct the girlfriend. The lead weirdo rapes the girlfriend. After this she can’t leave him alone, largely because she is pregnant and her boyfriend refuses to acknowledge her ordeal. This gives the weirdo the opportunity to do yet more awful things to her.
I did not want to spend 75 minutes of my life with these people. This is at least the third Japanese film I have seen where a woman seeks to form a relationship with her rapist. Yuck.
