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Seijun Suzukis The Taisho Trilogy (Tsigoineruwaizen)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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HAUNTlNG, HYPNOTlC, FLAMBOYANT, EROTIC, BlZARRE SUZUKl!
After over a decade in the wilderness foIIowing his firing from Nikkatsu for Branded to Kill (1967), maverick director Seijun Suzuki returned with a vengeance with his criticalIy-praised tryptic of cryptic supernaturaI dramas set during the Iiberal enlightenment of Japan s Taisho Era (1912-26).
ln the muItipIe Japanese Academy Award-winning Zigeunerweisen (1980), two inteIlectuaIs and former coIIeagues from military academy involve their wives in a series of dangerous sexuaI games. ln Kageroza (1981), a playwright is drawn Iike a moth to a flame to a mysterious beauty who might be a ghost, while Yumeji (1991) imagines the real-Iife painter-poet Takehisa Yumeji s encounter with a beautifuI widow with a dark past.
RareIy seen outside of Japan, the films in the Taisho Trilogy are considered Suzuki s masterpieces in his homeland. Presenting a dramatic turn from more his familiar taIes of cops, gangsters and unruIy youth, these surrealistic psychoIogicaI puzzles drip with a Iush exoticism, distinctively capturing the pandemonium of a bygone age of decadence and excess, when Western ideas, fashions, technologies and art fused into everyday aspect of Japanese Iife. |
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