Yumeji
Screening on Film
Directed by Seijun Suzuki.
With Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Tamasaburo Bando.
Japan, 1991, 35mm, color, 128 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation
With Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Tamasaburo Bando.
Japan, 1991, 35mm, color, 128 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation
Made ten years after its predecessor, the final film in the Taisho Trilogy spins a fantastical tale from the life of a historical figure. Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934) was an artist known as much for his paintings of beautiful women as for his bohemian lifestyle. As played by rock star Kenji Sawada, the Yumeji of Suzuki’s film is a serial seducer haunted by thoughts of his own death while pursuing ideals of beauty in his art. Traveling to Kanazawa to meet his lover, he instead falls for a widow whose murdered husband inconveniently returns from the dead. Love, desire, life, and death collapse into one another as Yumeji’s art takes on an uncanny existence of its own.
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