Manji (All Mixed Up)
Yasuzo Masumura / JP, 1964 / 90 min.
In cooperation with Camera Japan, we are screening three restored films by Japanese maverick director Yasuzo Masumura, starring his favourite regular actress Ayako Wakao. In Manji, she becomes embroiled in a confusing bisexual love quadrangle. 4K restoration.
This erotic and darkly comic melodrama by Japanese New Wave auteur Yasuzo Masumura stars a stunning Ayako Wakao as Mitsuko, a beguiling woman at the center of a tangled bisexual love quadrangle between bored housewife Sonoko (Kyoko Kishida), her husband and Mitsuko’s equally deceptive former fiancé.
Adapted from the novel Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki, the film’s story of destructive obsession, jealousy and manipulation is brilliantly rendered visually by Masumura and cinematographer Setsuo Kobayashi (Fires on the Plain), whose highly stylized compositions effectively portray the increasingly fractured psyches of four people constantly trying to out-maneuver each other for love at the risk of death.
4K restoration. Also screening in Eye: Yasuzo Masumura's films The Wife's Confession and Kisses.
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Details
Director
Yasuzo Masumura
Production year
1964
Country
JP
Original title
Manji (All Mixed Up)
Length
90 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Restored & Unseen
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