Pale Flower (#564) Oliver Reed 1973 / 88 min /

1973 / 88 min / 1

14 mins): June Ritchie

4K Scan from the Original Camera Negative

and sound-effects supervising editor Frank Warner

Pale Flower (#564) Oliver Reed 1973 / 88 min /In 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