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Thirst for Love(Ai no kawaki)

  • Dir: Kurahara Koreyoshi

  • Japan, 1966, Japanese, 98mins, 35mm

  • Cast: Asaoka Ruriko, Ishidate Tetsuo, Nakamura Nobuo

Kurahara Koreyoshi’s atmospheric style and swirling artistry prove to be a perfect match for Mishima Yukio’s poignant sensuality in this adaptation of his sombre, erotically charged story. Embodying covert suffering and yearning, Asaoka Ruriko excels as young widow Etsuko, who harbours repressive emotions as her father-in-law’s mistress in a traditional family, while embracing a destructive craze for the gardener. Unable to realise her desires, she seeks to emancipate herself through destruction. Painting her world as one of sensations, Kurahara intensifies her mixed emotions under extreme close-ups, as he obfuscates her fantasies through over-exposure, construing to depict a dysfunctional world of inequalities and obsession.

Kinema Junpo Top Ten: #7

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    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.