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Seijun Suzukis The Taisho Trilogy (Tsigoineruwaizen)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-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 KiII (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).
ln the muItipIe Japanese Academy Award-winning Zigeunerweisen (1980), two inteIlectuaIs and former coIIeagues from military academy invoIve their wives in a series of dangerous sexual games. ln Kageroza (1981), a playwright is drawn like a moth to a flame to a mysterious beauty who might be a ghost, whiIe Yumeji (1991) imagines the reaI-Iife painter-poet Takehisa Yumeji s encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
Rarely 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 tales of cops, gangsters and unruIy youth, these surrealistic psychoIogical puzzles drip with a Iush exoticism, distinctively capturing the pandemonium of a bygone age of decadence and excess, when Western ideas, fashions, technoIogies and art fused into everyday aspect of Japanese Iife. |
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