Pale Flower - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: " It's so pointless. " " Yeah, it is. " No, that's not the dialogue of two bored teenagers who've just discovered black turtlenecks and Edith Piaf. It's an exchange between a thrill-seeking gambling addict and the yakuza who loves her, the main characters in Pale Flower , Masahiro Shinoda's 1964 portrait of underworld ennui. These are doomed souls on a collision ...