The Warped Ones (Kyonetsu no kisetsu). Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1960.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Eclipse Series 28 The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara 5-DVD set, released 2011. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 99 minutes.
Summary: Chicken slaughter. We hear a chicken being grabbed and strangled off-screen at 1:02:40. It is carried into a house by its feet, and we see its plucked body (head still on) in a cooking pan 1:02.46. From 1:03:38 through 1:04:03 we see the chicken torn apart and eaten.
I recommend skipping this scene by skipping the entire movie. The Warped Ones is important as a pivot from conservative Japanese styles to the hip New Cinema, but I found it a grating, obnoxious, and unrewarding, filmic techniques aside.
