A Story Written with Water (1965)

Original title

水で書かれた物語

Directed by

Yoshishige Yoshida

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man is caught between his fiancée and his mother. He feels a strong and troubled attraction to his mother.

melancholictensebroodingslow-burnunsettlingvisually starkemotionally chargedintrospective

What happens

A Story Written with Water (Japanese: 水で書かれた物語, Hepburn: Mizu de kakareta monogatari) is a 1965 Japanese New Wave drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, adapted from a novel by Yōjirō Ishizaka. The film's title derives from John Keats's epitaph: “Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.” It follows the story of a young man torn between his fiancée and his long-suffering single mother, towards whom he harbors an oedipal attraction. It was the director's first independent film after leaving Shochiku. It was ranked the 10th best film of the year by Kinema Junpo in 1965. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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