Yumeji
Film

Yumeji

1991 · 128 min · ★ 6.6 · Dir. Seijun Suzuki

Artist Yumeji has gained fame and recognition for his skills at painting as well as notoriety for his untamed lifestyle. Despite his betrothal to a beautiful and timid young woman of high birth, his libido turns to his many female models. Despite this freedom from constraint, his lust and artistic sentiment cause him nothing but an increasing awareness of the elusive embodiment of true Beauty. While traveling he encounters a mesmerizing widow who relentlessly searches for her husband's body in the nearby lake, believing him killed at the hands of a ferocious roaming bandit. Infatuated with her beauty, he feigns to help her look for the corpse, only to unlock the mystery himself thereby sending him to further depths of debauchery and despair. This is the third and final film in director Suzuki Seijun's critically acclaimed Taisho Trilogy.

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Starring

Kenji Sawada
Kenji Sawada
Yumeji Takehisa
Yoshio Harada
Yoshio Harada
Wakiya
Tomoko Mariya
Tomoko Mariya
Tomoyo Wakiya
Masumi Miyazaki
Masumi Miyazaki
Hikono
Tamasaburo Bando
Tamasaburo Bando
Onshu Inamura
Kazuhiko Hasegawa
Kazuhiko Hasegawa
Onimatsu
Léona Hirota
Léona Hirota
Oyo
Akaji Maro
Akaji Maro
Criminal
Kimiko Yo
Kimiko Yo
Jiro
Chikako Miyagi
Chikako Miyagi
Nanny
Motomi Makiguchi
Motomi Makiguchi
Caretaker
Michiyo Yasuda
Michiyo Yasuda
Owner of a Hotel