Yumeji

feature film, 1991.

DIRECTED BY: Seijun Suzuki

Yumeji

CAST:
Kenji Sawada (Takehisa Yumeji),
Tomoko Mariya (Tomoyo Wakiya),
Masumi Miyazaki (Hikono),
Tamasaburo Bando (Onshu Inamura),
Yoshio Harada (Wakiya)

SCRIPT:
Yôzô Tanaka

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Junichi Fujisawa

Synopsis:
This is the third and last part of Suzuki’s Taisho trilogy (Tsigoineruwaizen, 1980 and Kagerô-za, 1981). The hero is based on a historic person, painter and poet Takehisa Yumeji (1884 - 1934). This dreamer fascinated with beauty falls in love with a widow, Tomoyo. Her husband was murdered by the jealous Onimatsu. When her husband returns from the dead as a ghost, Takehisi discovers that he has two rivals.

35 mm, color, 128 min

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