Flame and Women

How it feels

A Japanese couple's marriage falls apart after they use artificial insemination to have a child. The story is told in a non-linear way that shows the emotional distance and conflict between them.

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What happens

Flame and Women (Japanese: 炎と女, Hepburn: Honō to onna), also known as Impasse and Flame of Feeling, is a 1967 Japanese New Wave black and white drama film co-written and directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. The film is a nonlinear narrative about a couple whose marriage disintegrates after they conceive a child through artificial insemination. It stars Mariko Okada in the lead role (her fifth collaboration with Yoshida), in addition to Isao Kimura, Mayumi Ogawa, Takeshi Kusaka and Kazuo Kitamura. The film's score was composed by Teizo Matsumura. Flame and Women was theatrically released by Shochiku on 1 December 1967, in Japan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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