A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
Direction
Suzuki's final Taisho-era nightmare, unshackled from plot logic.
Cinematography
Every frame a painting — literally, he storyboarded as paintings.
Sound
Pablo de Sarasate's violin haunts the celluloid.
Director
Seijun Suzuki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
JP
