Enjō (1958)

Original title

炎上

Directed by

Kon Ichikawa

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A young Buddhist acolyte becomes obsessed with the beauty of a famous temple. His growing inner turmoil leads him to take a drastic action that changes everything.

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What happens

Conflagration (Japanese: 炎上, Hepburn: Enjō) is a 1958 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on the Yukio Mishima novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Ichikawa named Conflagration as the favourite among his own films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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