Lost Love - 1978 - 6/10
AKA - Genshiryoku Sensô // 映画「原子力戦争
Under the looming nuclear plant, two youths are found dead on the beach.
Police label it a suicide pact and close the case.
A reporter is unconvinced, noting the male was an engineer at the nuclear facility.
The other skeptic is the dead man’s wife of barely six months.
Then into the village arrives the white suited Tokyo pimp.
The suicide girl, she was his! She was a good earner. He is losing money!
He is the wild card, bull in the china shop, upsetting police, local families, those with agendas.
Actually, he is a joy to watch, shameless, concerned only with his lost revenue.
Prescient story predates Chernobyl by six years, Fukushima by thirty.
A persistent music theme resembles a dissonant “Somewhere” by Bernstein, which itself borrowed from Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #5.