Kobayashi's lesser-known work but of unprecedented epic magnitude. When Sadashichi -the most selfish, surly and willful of the soulless savages housed in the Fukawa Tavern- freely decided to risk his life to help Tomijiro, without receiving anything, because yes, infected by the young man's feverish desire to rescue Tomijiro O-kiwa, started something that could no longer be reversed and could not be stopped, because it infected his companions from La Isla who decided to go with him. Kobayashi shows us with small transcendental lessons, very far from moral precepts or collective imperatives, that our actions, even those that are gratuitous, those that have no purpose, will bring unpredictable and inevitable consequences in our lives and in those around us. The syntax of its violence and gore, the sinuous and abrupt rhythm together with the premises by which it occurs is definitely what makes Kobayashi's cinema genius. Progressively a psychological abyss is cleared in each character as the narrative progresses, until, almost unbreathable, as for example the scene where Sada murders agent Okajima, the actions and general conscience of each one of them becomes devilishly inscrutable. Kohei decides to help Tomijiro and supports him by Sadashichi, because of that strange enchantment that causes them to risk supporting Tomijiro to rescue the beautiful O-kiwa after having been sold by her father to a brothel. Toru Takemitsu's music tinges with a black thriller from when they are ambushed with the cargo and until the final battle for Tomi-san to escape.
Review of Inn of Evil
