Yumeji
1991 Japanese film
- May 31, 1991 (1991-05-31)
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Yumeji (夢二, Yumeji) is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki.[1] It is a semi-faithful account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji.[2] It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and Kagero-za (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato.[3]
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.[4]
Cast
- Kenji Sawada as Takehisa Yumeji
- Tomoko Mariya as Tomoyo
- Yoshio Harada as Sokichi Wakiya
- Masumi Miyazaki as Hikono
- Tamasaburo Bando as Gyoshu Inamura
- Reona Hirota as O-Yo
- Chikako Miyagi as Wet-nurse
- Kazuhiko Hasegawa as Onimatsu
- Michiyo Okusu as Landlady
Other
"Yumeji's Theme", written by Shigeru Umebayashi, features prominently in Wong Kar-wai's 2000 film In the Mood for Love.
References
External links
- Yumeji at IMDb
- Yumeji at AllMovie
- Yumeji (in Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database
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Films directed by Seijun Suzuki
- Victory Is Mine
- Eight Hours of Terror
- The Naked Woman and the Gun
- Underworld Beauty
- Young Breasts
- Voice Without a Shadow
- Take Aim at the Police Van
- Everything Goes Wrong
- Go to Hell, Hoodlums!
- Man with a Shotgun
- Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!
- Youth of the Beast
- The Bastard
- Kanto Wanderer
- The Flower and the Angry Waves
- Gate of Flesh
- Our Blood Will Not Forgive
- Story of a Prostitute
- Stories of Bastards: Born Under a Bad Star
- Tattooed Life
- Carmen from Kawachi
- Tokyo Drifter
- Fighting Elegy
- Branded to Kill
- A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
- Zigeunerweisen
- Kagero-za
- Capone Cries a Lot
- Legend of the Gold of Babylon
- Yumeji
- Pistol Opera
- Princess Raccoon
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