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Yumeji
Sign in to saveis a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-faithful account of the life of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and Kagero-za (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato.
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6.4Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
Cast
- Kenji Sawada as Yumeji Takehisa
- Yoshio Harada as Wakiya
- Tomoko Mariya as Tomoyo Wakiya
- Masumi Miyazaki as Hikono
- Tamasaburō Bandō V as Onshu Inamura
- Kazuhiko Hasegawa as Onimatsu
Themes
- taisho period
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Ratings
IMDb
6.9/10
760 votes
- Year
- 1991
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
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is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-faithful account of the life of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and Kagero-za (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
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