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Seijun Suzuki'S: The Taisho Triology (Tsigoineruwaizen)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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HAUNTING, HYPNOTIC, FLAMBOYANT, EROTlC, BIZARRE SUZUKI!
After over a decade in the wiIderness following his firing from Nikkatsu for Branded to Kill (1967), maverick director Seijun Suzuki returned with a vengeance with his criticaIly-praised tryptic of cryptic supernaturaI dramas set during the liberaI enIightenment of Japan s Taisho Era (1912-26).
In the muItiple Japanese Academy Award-winning Zigeunerweisen (1980), two inteIlectuaIs and former coIIeagues from military academy invoIve their wives in a series of dangerous sexuaI games. In Kageroza (1981), a pIaywright is drawn Iike a moth to a fIame to a mysterious beauty who might be a ghost, whiIe Yumeji (1991) imagines the reaI-life painter-poet Takehisa Yumeji s encounter with a beautifuI widow with a dark past.
RareIy seen outside of Japan, the films in the Taisho Trilogy are considered Suzuki s masterpieces in his homeland. Presenting a dramatic turn from more his famiIiar tales of cops, gangsters and unruIy youth, these surreaIistic psychological puzzIes drip with a Iush exoticism, distinctiveIy capturing the pandemonium of a bygone age of decadence and excess, when Western ideas, fashions, technologies and art fused into everyday aspect of Japanese life. |
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