Akitsu Springs

Name: Akitsu Springs
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1962-06-15
Duration: 1 h 53 min
Rating: 7.70
Cast: Jûkichi Uno, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura, Mariko Okada

– Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and po..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

7.70 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 53 Minutes

Release Year:

1962

Original Name:

秋津温泉

Akitsu Springs (1962) - Also known as 秋津温泉

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.

Producing Country:

Japan

Genre:

Romance, Drama

Release Date:

15 Jun 1962

Language:

Japanese

Directed by:

Yoshishige Yoshida

Story Written By:

Yoshishige Yoshida, Shinya Fujiwara

Main Actors:

Jûkichi Uno, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura, Mariko Okada

Plot:

The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, a very ill Shusaku arrives in Okayama. He meets Shinko, an innkeeper, who inadvertently gives him the will to live as he spies her crying one day. As romance blossoms, the secret death wish he'd brought with him contends with true love for precedence in their relationship. Based on the book by Shinya Fujiwara.

Awards:

2 wins.

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

7.8/10

#Japanese New Wave

#Spa

#Illness

#World War Two

#Love

#Water