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With Beauty and Sorrow

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Original title

Utsukushisa to kanashimi to (With Beauty and Sorrow)

Year

1965

Running time

106 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Masahiro Shinoda

Screenwriter

Nobuo Yamada. Novel: Yasunari Kawabata

Cast

Music

Tôru Takemitsu

Cinematography

Masao Kosugi

Producer

Shôchiku

Genre

Drama. Romance

Synopsis

Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian. Her favourite student and beloved one was the beautiful Keiko. 24 years after the early love Ôki goes from Tokyo to Kyoto to meet Otoko. The meeting is polite with secret emotional shadows. Keiko makes a plan. She intends to seduce Ôki, become pregnant, bear Ôki's child and give it to Otoko.

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With Beauty and Sorrow

1965

Masahiro Shinoda

6.9

(57)