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Thursday, May 19, 2016
7 PM (144 mins)
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Zigeunerweisen
Imported Print!
featuringA luxuriant, hypnotic ghost story, full of bizarre narrative twists and chic enigmas.
James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario
Yoshio Harada, Naoko Otani, Toshiya Fujita, Michiyo Okusu,
Named the best film of the 1980s in a poll of Japanese film critics, Zigeunerweisen takes its title from a recording of violin music by Pablo de Sarasate. The piece haunts the film’s two main characters: Aochi, an uptight professor at a military academy, and his erstwhile colleague Nakasago, who is now a wild-haired wanderer and possible murderer. The movie’s plot is a metaphysical ghost story involving love triangles, doppelgangers, and a blurred line between the worlds of the living and the dead.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Yozo Tanaka
Cinematographer
- Kazue Nagatsuka
Language
- Japanese
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 144 mins
Source
- Kawakita
Permission
- Little More