Suna no ue no shokubutsugun
Flora on the Sand aka Jungle Interlude
(c)1964 NIKKATSU CORPORATION
(c)1964 NIKKATSU CORPORATION
- Release Date
- August, 29th, 1964
- Running Time
- 95 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Part Color
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope (1:2.35)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- NAKAYA Noboru ── IGI Ichiro
- INANO Kazuko ── TSUGAMI Kyoko
- NISHIO Mieko ── TSUGAMI Akiko
[ Staff ]
- NAKAHIRA Ko ── Screenplay
- YOSHIYUKI Junnosuke ── Based on a novel by
- IKEDA Ichiro ── Screenplay
- KATO Akira ── Screenplay
- YAMAZAKI Yoshihiro ── Cinematography
- MAYUZUMI Toshiro ── Music
- OTSURU Yasuhiro ── Art Director
[ Production Company ]
NIKKATSU
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
NIKKATSU
[ Story ]
After a chance encounter with a precocious high school student, a cosmetics salesman is solicited by the young girl to seduce and "hurt" her older sister. The film is adapted from a famous novel by YOSHIYUKI Junnosuke, a member of the so-called "third generation" of postwar writers (the first and second "generations" having debuted in 1947 and 1948-49 respectively), who breathed new life into the postwar literary scene. Its story charting the protagonists' surrender to sexual pleasure unfolds across stark black and white images interspersed with Paul Klee's richly colored abstract paintings and Bach's sensual melodies to produce an aesthetic eroticism that threatens to burst from every frame. The film is exemplary of Nakahira's late-period works, characterized by their explorations of sexual love.
Written by KU Mina
Translated by Adam Sutherland
[ Contact (International) ]
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