Shitoyakana Kedamono
Elegant Beast
(c)KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1962
(c)KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1962
- Release Date
- December, 26th, 1962
- Running Time
- 96 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope (1:2.35)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- WAKAO Ayako ── MITANI Yukie
- ITO Yunosuke ── MAEDA Tokizo
- YAMAOKA Hisano ── MAEDA Yoshino
[ Staff ]
- SHINDO Kaneto ── Original Story
- SHINDO Kaneto ── Screenplay
- MUNEKAWA Nobuo ── Cinematography
- IKENO Sei ── Music
- SHIBATA Tokuji ── Art Direction
[ Production Company ]
Daiei (Tokyo)
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
KADOKAWA CORPORATION
[ Story ]
In this dazzlingly original work set entirely within a single public-housing apartment, we follow the Maedas, a family of four whose surface elegance belies their moral depravity, as they engage in one act of deception after another. Featuring an original screenplay by SHINDO Kaneto (for which he received the Kinema Junpo Screenplay Award), the film serves as a showcase for Kawashima's inventive use of space, transforming the family's small living quarters into a microcosm of contemporary society and all its aching desires. WAKAO Ayako is particularly memorable as Yukie, the duplicitous lover who bedazzles the "elegant beasts" of the title.
Written by KU Mina
Reference: National Film Archive of Japan screening program
Translated by Adam Sutherland
[ Contact (International) ]
KADOKAWA CORPORATION
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