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
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.
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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The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.