With Beauty and Sorrow
1965 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan
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.
Direction Masahiro Shinoda
Cast Kaoru Yachigusa · Mariko Kaga · Sô Yamamura · Kei Yamamoto · Misako Watanabe · Haruko Sugimura · Yoshiko Nakamura
Soundtrack Tôru Takemitsu
Screenplay Nobuo Yamada · Yasunari Kawabata
Cinematography Masao Kosugi
Original title Utsukushisa to kanashimi to (With Beauty and Sorrow)
6.8
50 votes (FilmAffinity)
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