| Brief Description: | A career highlight for maverick Japanese director Seijun Suzuki, the second entry in his Taisho Trilogy is a radically disjointed, wildly inventive patchwork drama set in 1926 Tokyo. Based on a story by Kyoka Izumi, the film chronicles a playwright's (Yusaku Matsuda) growing obsession with a beautiful enchantress (Eriko Kasuda) who floats through his life like a ghost. As he pursues a romantic connection to the corporeal spirit, the playwright realizes that he is being led to his demise. "Filled with luminous images and fierce eroticism" (London Film Festival). In Japanese with English subtitles. |
