After over a decade in the wilderness following his firing from Nikkatsu for Branded to Kill, maverick director Seijun Suzuki returned with a vengeance with his critically-praised tryptic of cryptic supernatural dramas set during the liberal enlightenment of Japan s Taisho Era. In the multiple Japanese Academy Award-winning Zigeunerweisen, two intellectuals and former colleagues from military academy involve their wives in a series of dangerous sexual games. In Kageroza, a playwright is drawn like a moth to a flame to a mysterious beauty who might be a ghost, while Yumeji imagines the real-life painter-poet Takehisa Yumeji s encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
The Taisho Trilogy
Official List