Mujo (1970)

Original title

無常

Directed by

Akio Jissōji

Genre

drama film, erotic film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 23m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man has an affair with his sister and she becomes pregnant. A monk discovers this secret. The man then works for a sculptor and his actions make the situation more complicated.

intimatebroodingtransgressivecontemplativemelancholicsensualmorally complex

What happens

This Transient Life (無常, Mujō) is a 1970 Japanese erotic drama film directed by Akio Jissoji, in his feature directorial debut. It is the first film in Jissoji's Buddhist Trilogy. Starring Ryō Tamura and Michiko Tsukasa, it follows a young man who falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk from a nearby Buddhist Monastery finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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