Double Suicide (1969) more movies like this

directed by Masahiro Shinoda
featuring Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Hosei Komatsu, Yusuke Takita, Kamatari Fujiwara

A masterpiece of Japanese New Wave cinema, renowned filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda directs this brilliant modernist reworking of a famous 1720 bunraku (puppet theater) play written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Set in Osaka in the 18th century, the film centers on the doomed romance between Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura), a down and out married paper ...

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Sekka Tomurai Zashi (1983) more movies like this

directed by Yoichi Takabayashi
featuring Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masayo Utsunomiya, Yusuke Takita, Masaki Kyomoto, Harue Kyo

The 1981 American film Tattoo told the story of an artist whose obsession with the woman he loves leads to his covering her body with irremovable tattoos. This film has little to recommend it. On the other hand, the strikingly similar Japanese Irezumi (Spirit to Tattoo) is a consistently fascinating tale of sexual obsession and fetishism. Perhaps ...

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