Manji
All Mixed Up
(c)KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1964
(c)KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1964
- Release Date
- July, 25th, 1964
- Running Time
- 90 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope (1:2.35)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- WAKAO Ayako ── TOKUMITSU Mitsuko
- KISHIDA Kyoko ── KAKIUCHI Sonoko
- KAWAZU Yusuke ── WATANUKI Eijiro
[ Staff ]
- TANIZAKI Junichiro ── Based on a novel by
- SHINDO Kaneto ── Screenplay
- KOBAYASHI Setsuo ── Photography
- YAMAUCHI Tadashi ── Music
- SHIMOGAWARA Tomoo ── Art Direction
[ Production Company ]
Daiei (Tokyo)
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
KADOKAWA CORPORATION
[ Story ]
A literary adaptation from Masumura's mid-career period. The title is taken from the Japanese name for the swastika, an ancient Buddhist symbol representing good fortune, whose four-pronged shape serves as a visual metaphor for the intertwined fates of the two couples at the film's heart. When Sonoko falls in love with fellow female art student Mitsuko, it sets them and their respective partners on a collision course that culminates in tragedy. Based on a Tanizaki novel written after the novelist relocated to western Japan following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the film retains the novel's western dialect, lending it a distinct charm. The split-screen composition adopted in certain scenes is also worthy of note.
Written by MIYAMOTO Noriaki
Translated by Adam Sutherland
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2023 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (as Tribute to Yasuzô Masumura)
[ Contact (International) ]
KADOKAWA CORPORATION
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