A career highlight for maverick Japanese
director Seijun Suzuki, the second entry in his Taisho Trilogy is a
radically disjointed, wildly inventive patchwork drama set in 1926
Tokyo. Based on a story by Kyoka Izumi, the film chronicles a
playwright's (Yusaku Matsuda) growing obsession with a beautiful
enchantress (Eriko Kasuda) who floats through his life like a ghost. As
he pursues a romantic connection to the corporeal spirit, the playwright
realizes that he is being led to his demise. "Filled with luminous
images and fierce eroticism" (London Film Festival). In Japanese with
English subtitles. 139 minutes.