Yumeji (1991)
夢二
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
- Date of release
- 1991-05-31
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (36)
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Seijun Suzuki
- Collection
- The Taisho Trilogy
Casting
- Kenji Sawada — Yumeji Takehisa
- Yoshio Harada — Wakiya
- Tomoko Mariya — Tomoyo Wakiya
- Masumi Miyazaki — Hikono
- Tamasaburō Bandō V — Onshu Inamura
- Kazuhiko Hasegawa — Onimatsu
- Léona Hirota — Oyo
- Akaji Maro — Criminal
- Kimiko Yo — Jiro
- Chikako Miyagi — Nanny
- Motomi Makiguchi — Caretaker
- Michiyo Yasuda — Owner of a Hotel
Interesting facts
Yumeji is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-faithful account of the life of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. 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.
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