Tribute to Yasuzô Masumura 2023 / Irezumi / Japan 1966
Long before the modern female revenge genre came into existence, there was The Spider Tattoo, Masumura’s mysterious, ferocious Edo-era fable. Ayako Wakao is Otsuya, the daughter of a wealthy merchant who gets kidnapped and forced into prostitution. A demented tattoo artist engraves a large, black, human-faced spider on her back that turns her into a murderess, hell-bent on annihilating the men who abused her. A star-studded collaboration adapted from renowned author Jun’ichirō Tanizaki's novel by writer-director Kaneto Shindô (The Naked Island, Onibaba) and photographed by the legendary Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu) in entrancing, sumptuous Eastmancolor, The Spider Tattoo is Masumura’s most visually striking film.
Joseph Fahim
86 min / Color, DCP
Director Yasuzô Masumura
/ Screenplay Kaneto Shindo podle předlohy / based on the novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
/ Dir. of Photography Kazuo Miyagawa
/ Music Hajime Kaburagi
/ Sound Masao Osumi
/ Editor Kanji Suganuma
/ Art Director Yoshinobu Nishioka
/ Production DAIEI studio, Kadokawa Corporation
/ Cast Ayako Wakao. Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto
/ Sales Kadokawa Corporation
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