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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0695026702429
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Fantoma
Manufacturer: Fantoma
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fantoma
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 04, 2004
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 71609
Studio: Fantoma
Theatrical Release Date: 1964
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Rating:  - That Tanizaki Touch
Within his large body of work, the noted Japanese novelist Tanizaki Junichirou became renowned for the pure sensuality and eroticism. In "A Portrait of Shunkin the servant of a blind samisen player blinds himself when his mistress's face is marred. In "The Bridge of Dreams" a young man is told by his father to accept his new stepmother as his own and he goes as far as to nurse at her breasts and in "Mr. Bluemound a man goes as far as to create perfect reproductions of a man's wife, including such ... Read More
Rating: - Worshiping the Godess with everything you have
"Manji" is pure Junichiro Tanizaki. All of his favorite themes are on display: the modern, Westernized Japanese girl representing a moral void intent on servicing only her own interests to the destruction of others, the obsession with such a figure, going beyond sexuality to absolute slavish devotion, even the spanking. Tanizaki was an author with a definite viewpoint, and director Yasuzo Masumura has captured this viewpoint perfectly.
The fulcrum in "Manji" is Mitsuko Tokumitsu, a ... Read More
Rating:  - Masumura is an original
Masumura's work is the cinematic equivalent of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories.His universe is populated with characters who live on the brink of despair and psychological breakdown.The dramatic intensity and visual panache of his movies makes him an undervaluated master of the new wave movement.
MANJI and THE BLIND BEAST are masterpieces of underground cinema whose surreal intensity reminds me such masters as Ken Russel and David Lynch and should not be missed.
Rating: - Wonderful black comedy of obsessive desire
It probably helps if you know a little bit about Japanese culture and manners to appreciate some of the things the characters say and do - but even the uninformed will have no trouble knowing when these people go beyond the pale of acceptable conduct. This is a fairly broad, but very satisfying, adaptation of a Tanizaki story - one of his delightfully morbid sex farces. It is beautifully filmed, striking a very pleasing balance between humor and tragedy. The actress playing the Osaka housewife gone ... Read More
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