RAGE (Lee Sang-il 2016)

This tense-making Japanese film explores the current lives and relationships of three young men who have recently appeared where they are and so might be suspects in a brutal murder case hiding out. The manhunt has gone on for two years and is nearing discovery of the identity of the killer. One of the guys is gay, and the explicit gay scenes seemed unusual in a Japanese film. There is also depiction of a rape on Okinawa by GI's - a common, and shocking, phenomenon to which perhaps the story wants to call attention. As the film switches back and forth between the three guys we try to guess, and we're teased up till the end, and aren't given information we could use to figure it out, really. An effective, cleverly edited film, but I felt manipulated. Based on a Shuichi Yoshida novel like director Lee's 2010 Villain.