Swastika (1964) Manji
Swastika (1964)
DVDRip | MKV | 718x364 | x264 @ 1061 Kbps | 90 min | 810 Mb
Audio: Japanese (日本語) AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Romance
DVDRip | MKV | 718x364 | x264 @ 1061 Kbps | 90 min | 810 Mb
Audio: Japanese (日本語) AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Writers: Kaneto Shindô, Jun'ichirô Tanizaki (novel)
Stars: Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi
Sonoko, a bored housewife entering middle age, meets a young girl, Mitsuko, at a private school of art. Sonoko paints a portrait of her, and when she invites Mitsuko to her house, they end up locked in a passionate embrace. Unable to think rationally about what she wants, Sonoko becomes steadily more obsessed with her new lover. Jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
'Manji' is a film worth seeing. Written by Kaneto Shindô (of 'Onibaba' fame) and based on a novel by Tanizaki (of 'Some Prefer Nettles' fame), the story chronicles the decent/ascent of the unhappily married woman, Sonoko, into an obsessive/liberating relationship with another woman, Mitsuko, associated throughout the film with the goddess of mercy. While all of the main characters' emotions run high, placing 'Manji' firmly in the genre of melodrama, the emotional intensity is always tempered with an element of sly humor. Both Sonoko and Mitsuko have complex motivations, and each is keenly aware of the machinations of the other, ensuring that the story is about passion, weakness, and love, and not about unexamined emotions and victimization.
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Swastika (1964) Manji
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