Stolen Desire
(Nusumareta yokujo)
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Directed by Shohei Imamura.
With Osamu Takizawa, Hiroyuki Nagato,Yoko Minamida.
Japan, 1958, 35mm, black & white, 92 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation
With Osamu Takizawa, Hiroyuki Nagato,Yoko Minamida.
Japan, 1958, 35mm, black & white, 92 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation
Stolen Desire, Imamura's film debut, can be seen as a ribald, contrarian reworking of Ozu's A Story of Floating Weeds. An idealistic director quits school to join a traveling theater troupe and finds himself trapped in a love triangle between the leading player's wife and her younger sister. Imamura has claimed the disillusioned protagonist was modeled after himself.
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