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Genocide (昆虫大戦争, Konchu daisenso, lit. 'Great Insect War') is a 1968 Japanese tokusatsu science fiction horror film directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu.[2]

Genocide
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kazui Nihonmatsu
Screenplay by	Susumu Takaku
Story by	Kingen Amada[1]
Produced by	Tsuneo Kosumi[1]
Cinematography	Shizuo Hirase[1]
Edited by	Akimitsu Terada[1]
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi[1]
Production company	Shochiku[1]
Release date	November 9, 1968 (1968-11-09) (Japan)
Running time	84 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

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Production

Genocide was co-written by Susumu Takaku, an anime and live-action screenwriter.[4] The films staff includes Shizuo Hirase as the cinematographer who also worked on the Shochiku films The X from Outer Space and Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell.[4]

Release

Genocide was released in Japan on 9 November 1968.[1] It was released as a double feature with The Living Skeleton.[5][6] The film was released in the United States by Shochiku Films of America in 1969.[1] The film was promoted under the title War of the Insects on this release.[1]

The Criterion Collection released Genocide on DVD in a compilation set titled When Horror Came to Shochiku through their Eclipse label.[7] The box set was released on November 20, 2012.[8]

Reception

Slant Magazine described the film as "appropriately harrowing" and one where women "come under the most direct indictment". The review opined that Nihonmatsu "handles with considerably more skill than his prior Shochiku effort" and that "Genre films don't often cover as much ground stylistically or thematically as Genocide, let alone get more bleak (the film ultimately hinges on the potential detonation of a hydrogen bomb and the single mother who may have to single-handedly repopulate a country), but as the last horror film Shochiku would produce, it's suitably ambitious and apocalyptic in its finality."[9] Sight & Sound described Genocide as an "accident of a film" that "plays mostly as a national symptom, in a legacy of scenarios devised both to make sense of, and to reduce to pulp the memories of nuclear heat-death".[10]

See also

• List of horror films of 1968
• List of Japanese films of 1968
• List of science fiction films of the 1960s

References

Footnotes

Sources

External links

• Genocide at IMDb

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