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$29.95
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Format: VHS
Feb 1998
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
96 min.
Color
UPC: 037429119730 |
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Movie Description
Director Kon Ichikawa's adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's KAGI is a black comedy reminiscent of the films of Luis Buñuel. Ganjiro Nakamura stars as Mr. Kenmochi, an aged Japanese art critic whose increasing impotence has led him to take injections to maintain his sex life. However, even this remedy is now failing him, and, hoping to use jealousy to achieve arousal, he decides to instigate a relationship between his wife, Ikuko (Machiko Kyô), and the attractive younger Dr. Kimura (Tatsuya Nakadai). After Kenmochi shows the doctor nude photos of his wife as well as employing other expedients, the two begin a passionate affair, much to the disappointment of Toshiko (Junko Kano), Kenmochi's daughter, who has a crush on the doctor. Ichikawa's fascinating film is photographed by the estimable Kazuo Miyagawa (KAGEMUSHA, YOJIMBO, and RASHOMON) and is exceptionally well acted, particularly by Kyô as the perverse Ikuko.
Synopsis
An elderly Japanese man with a beautiful young wife finds it difficult to reconcile his feelings of desire with his decreasing potency. In his effort to stay young, he creates jealousy that causes a wave of reaction ending in comic tragedy. Kon Ichikawa's film won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was honored by the Golden Globes as one of that year's five best foreign films.
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