In the former fishing village she grew up in the beautiful Isako (Kyoko Enami) arrives from Shinjuku with her youthful lover, a fugitive Yakuza named Tetsuo (Akira Oda). He finds it hard to adjust in this desolate place until he strikes up a friendship with a young blind girl named Yuki (Mihoko Nakagawa). But Isako finds herself beset by a … Read the rest
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Shadow of Deception (Koichi Saito, Japan, 1971)
An adulterous affair between Minako (Shima Iwashita), the wife of a rich but much older husband who can no longer satisfy her physically, and Shozo (Akira Nakao), a young archaeology scholar married to his teacher’s daughter, reaches breaking point when it becomes apparent that while Minako is quite willing to leave her husband, Shozo values his work and career far … Read the rest
The Rendezvous (Koichi Saito, Japan, 1972)
To the accompaniment of an instantly memorable score an attractive middle-aged woman (Keiko Kishi) sits alone on a park bench watching the world go by – children at play, couples arm in arm strolling past. At the end of the film we’ll come back to this scene and understand its significance but after this intriguing opening we’re on a train … Read the rest
