Akitsu Springs
– Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and po..
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.
15 Jun 1962
Japanese
Yoshishige Yoshida
Shinya Fujiwara (novel), Yoshishige Yoshida
Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura, Jûkichi Uno
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.
2 wins.