Pig Chicken Suicide is a veritable assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal slaughter, racial strife and surrealism to tell the story of two Koreans living in Japan who's love is destroyed due to overwhelming racial discrimination.
Direction
Matsui's controlled chaos — every frame screams intention.
Cinematography
Jagged 16mm that looks like a nightmare you half-remember.
Director
Yoshihiko Matsui
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Matsui was part of the 1980s Japanese underground film scene that deliberately provoked censors; this got him effectively banned from commercial filmmaking for years.
The Korean-Japanese ('Zainichi') experience depicted here was rarely shown onscreen in 1981 — Matsui made audiences sit with visceral disgust to mirror how society treated these lovers.
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