This Transient Life
Appearance
(Redirected from Mujo (Film))
This Transient Life | |
---|---|
![]() Film poster | |
Directed by | Akio Jissoji |
Written by | Toshirô Ishidô |
Produced by |
|
Starring |
|
Cinematography |
|
Edited by | Yoshihiro Yanagawa |
Music by | Toru Fuyuki |
Production companies |
|
Distributed by | Art Theatre Guild |
Release date |
|
Running time | 143 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
This Transient Life (無常, Mujō) is a 1970 Japanese erotic drama film directed by Akio Jissoji, in his feature directorial debut.[1][2] It is the first film in Jissoji's Buddhist Trilogy. Starring Ryō Tamura and Michiko Tsukasa, it follows a young man who falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk from a nearby Buddhist Monastery finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.[3][4]
Cast
[edit]- Ryō Tamura as Masao (brother)
- Michiko Tsukasa as Yuri (sister)
- Kozo Yamamura as father
- Kin Sugai as mother
- Kotobuki Hananomoto as Iwashita (the servant)
- Akiji Kobayashi
- Eiji Okada as Mori (the sculptor)
- Mitsuko Tanaka as Mori's second wife
- Isao Sasaki as Mori's Son
- Minori Terada
- Haruhiko Okamura as Ogino (Buddhist priest)
References
[edit]- ^ "無常". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ^ 無常 (1970). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ "無常とは". kotobank. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2012.