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
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.
meditativeintensephilosophicalmelancholicslow-burnvisually lushunsettlingbrooding
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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