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Yasuzo Masumura
- The Most Valuable Wife
1959
#最高殊勲夫人#増村保造#若尾文子#川口浩#The Most Valuable Wife#Yasuzo Masumura#Ayako Wakao#Hiroshi Kawaguchi#Japanese Film#1959#camera#Yasuzô Masumura
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Blind Beast (1969) dir. Yasuzô Masumura
#Blind Beast#Blind Beast 1969#Yasuzô Masumura#Mako Midori#Eiji Funakoshi#Movies#filmstills#Japanese Cinema
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Warm Current (1957), dir. 暖流 Yasuzô Masumura
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Irezumi (1966)
"See how fascinating this painting is? A beauty trampling the corpses of countless men at her feet, feasting on their flesh and blood to grow and prosper. Tell me... don't you think she resembles you?"
#irezumi#japanese cinema#1966#yasuzô masumura#jun'ichirô tanizaki#kaneto shindô#ayako wakao#akio hasegawa#gaku yamamoto#kei satô#fujio suga#reiko fujiwara#asao uchida#kikue môri#hikaru hayashi#absolutely beautiful film. full of deep‚ rich colours and vibrant detail‚ a masterful composition on a morbid subject#I've loved the other Masumura films I've seen‚ and appreciate his aesthetic focus and eye for detail but this is the first of his colour#works I've seen and it's a whole new level. near perfect in pure visual terms; plotting and script‚ while suitably dramatic#and tragic‚ aren't quite as perfect. centres on a terrific performance from Wakao as a woman transformed from an impulsive and#irresponsible but romantic girl into a cold‚ near monstrous vision of vengeful hatred. arguably Masumura is asking the viewer to look at#Wakao's distorted personality by the end of the film as somewhat grotesque or at least as tragic but i gotta say that in 2023 it's hard not#to feel a frisson of 'good for her' as she engineers the bloody deaths of every man who ever wronged her#the character could perhaps have used a little more nuance and I'd also have liked to have seen more made of the parallels in trading flesh#(both figuratively as sex work and literally as canvas for tattooists) but these are relatively minor gripes. a kind of updated fairy tale#with a moralist slant‚ but a deeply beautiful one. rain swept and blood drenched‚ deep shadows and pale skin‚ flashing blades and#rich fabric folds. sumptuous.
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Red Angel, Yasuzô Masumura, 1966
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The Blue Sky Maiden (1957) Directed by Yasuzô Masumura
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Ayaka Wakao and Yukio Mishima in Afraid to Die (1960, dir. Yasuzô Masumura)
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A Wife Confesses (1961) dir. Yasuzô Masumura
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Irezumi (1966, Yasuzô Masumura)
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Irezumi | Yasuzô Masumura | 1966
Gaku Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao
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Yasuzô Masumura
- Blind Beast
1969
#yasuzo masumura#Yasuzô Masumura#Blind Beast#増村保造#盲獣#Mako Midori#緑魔子#Japanese Film#1969#eye#eyes#船越英二#Eiji Funakoshi
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Blind Beast (1969) dir. Yasuzô Masumura
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Kuchizuke, Yasuzô Masumura, 1957.
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🎥 Red Angel (1966) / dir. Yasuzô Masumura
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BLIND BEAST (Masumura, 1969)
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