Village of Doom is a 1983 film directed by Noboru Tanaka and staring Masato Furuoya, Misako Tanaka, Kumiko Oba. The film follows an emotionally distraught young man who goes on a violent killing spree after tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War 2 making him be ostracised by his villagers. Village of Doom is an interesting character study of a disturbed individual and the factors that lead up to his slaughter.
The film shows people being sent off to war in World War two, however the main character isn’t celebrating he is sad that he can’t go with the soldier’s mum looking scared as the main guy is enthusiastic about him going off to war. He wants to be a solider, but he can’t be due to tuberculosis as shown with him coming across a bunch of guys torturing a chicken to death. The main character is a smart guy who wants to be drafted even though he has a future ahead of him, however he is suffering from tuberculosis has he goes to the doctors. The main guy gets shown up by his friend, as he wants to fight in the war as e has a sort of love interest that can’t be as they are not cousins. His military’s pride is shown with him only telling war stories to kids who are fed up with it, he also has a pure vison of society with him watching people who aren’t married. This film shows him being a young man with him going to see the doctors as he thinks about women and can’t concentrate on her studies, his patriotism in shown with him talking to a woman about the honour of war as in reality he is just feeding horses. The woman is lonely and tries to seduce the guy as he gives him a hand job and humiliates his quick cum time, as another woman invites him round her house.
He ends up having sex losing his virginity and becoming a real man, the film shows the brutality with them killing useless people and burying them in the hills. The brutality of this tiny village is shown with them throwing babies into the river and the omen there are lonely, the film shows the main character and the girl as cousins who love each other. The main guy finds out he has tuberculosis and can’t go to war as he is distraught over this. He is ultimately ostracised from the village due to tuberculosis and his parents died from a different illness. His love interest’s family is sick ad she can be seen with him, he wanted to be a soldier and not the car as he finds out the girl is getting married next mouth as he is ill, as shown with him throwing up blood. He has sex with the same woman again who states she never loved him, and he won’t see her again. He ends up seeing the girl he loved being with the guy he dislikes, and he tries to get with another woman because her husband. The main guy accidently tries it on with his aunt as he then tries to take his cousin ex-lover by force but runs away. He ends up seeing a murder by a gang who forces him to be quite as he is laughed at and runs away, as he then looks and riels at aa urn shop a practice on trees hinting to the slaughter that will happen. He shows his military pride and disturbed mind with him making a plan of attack on the village calling it a battlefield, this is further shown with him marking key places of interest with gun powder and set them alight. The guy then gets into an argument with a villager who says he just angry he can’t go to war as he is pointlessly running around with a rife as he can’t fight. His rage further shown with him standing with a rifle looking at a woman as the husband and him get into a fight.
He tries to kill his grandma however she realises this, and he runs away, he then peeks in on the neighbour gurl as he kas to be with her and he vomits blood in the bath, and they cover themselves with his bloody water as he apologies and runs away. This shows that she cares about him despite his ostracization. He then sees the love of his life with another man further highlighting his rage, as he gets a shotgun and a samurai sword. His tragic life is shown with him seeing his old flame and wondering what he is going to do, as everything in the film is lonely and fills it with sex. The villagers see him as a devil they must expel form the village, as he gets ready to cast death upon the village. The film has a blood red look to it showing death, as he cuts the electrical wires. At midnight he gets ready for his military like mission, as he kills his grandmother to make him a devil/demon as he wants to be evil to extract his revenge. He kills his neighbours including the old slut. He kills his love interest and kills a bunch more people including his rival, this shows the hidden rage brought on by his situation and he enacts his revenge on the village and the people who wronged him. He kills his cousin and kills the person who helped with his rival and family. He kills a bunch more people and spares his old childhood lover showing his hidden rage and that he is enacting revenge against the people who wronged him. He kills another group of people that wronged him showing his rage against society as the guy he wants to kill tricks him with mattresses, showing his rage will not satisfy him. His hidden rage come with a coast as he accidently kills a wife whose husband was trying to protect her as he then shoots her in her vagina. showing the brutality of his rage. He then reunites with his love who sees him as a devil, but he sees himself as a devil who killed other devils, showing show his horrific situation can cause brutality and insanity. The film ends with him saying goodbye to her as he tells her to look after his grandma linking into the theme of women being lonely in small isolated Japanese towns. The film ends with him sitting on the grass blooded and singing he throws away the girls rope then kills himself. This shows the cycle of death can only end with his demise and that that there are no winners here.
Village of Doom is a character study of a disturbed individual and that factors leading up to his slaughter and that the cycle of death can only end with his death as there are no heroes in this story.