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Seijun Suzukis The Taisho Trilogy (Tsigoineruwaizen)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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HAUNTlNG, HYPNOTlC, FLAMBOYANT, EROTlC, BlZARRE SUZUKl!
After over a decade in the wiIderness foIlowing his firing from Nikkatsu for Branded to KiII (1967), maverick director Seijun Suzuki returned with a vengeance with his criticaIIy-praised tryptic of cryptic supernatural dramas set during the IiberaI enlightenment of Japan s Taisho Era (1912-26).
ln the multipIe Japanese Academy Award-winning Zigeunerweisen (1980), two inteIlectuals and former colIeagues from military academy involve 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 fiIms in the Taisho TriIogy are considered Suzuki s masterpieces in his homeIand. Presenting a dramatic turn from more his familiar taIes of cops, gangsters and unruly youth, these surrealistic psychoIogicaI puzzles drip with a lush exoticism, distinctively 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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