Kagero-za

1981 Japanese film
  • July 31, 1981 (1981-07-31)
Running time
139 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapanese

Kagerō-za (陽炎座, Heat-Haze Theatre) is a 1981 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on a novel by Kyōka Izumi.[1][2] It forms the middle section of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and followed by Yumeji (1991), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912–1926) setting. All were produced by Genjirō Arato.

Cast

  • Yūsaku Matsuda as Shunko Matsuzaki
  • Michiyo Okusu as Shinako
  • Katsuo Nakamura as Tamawaki
  • Yoshio Harada as Wada
  • Eriko Kusuda as Ine
  • Mariko Kaga as Miyo
  • Asao Sano
  • Ryūtarō Ōtomo as Shishō

References

  1. ^ "陽炎座". kinenote. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  2. ^ 陽炎座とは (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 2021-01-26.

External links

  • Kagero-za at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Kagero-za at AllMovie
  • Kagerō-za (in Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database


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