Genjitsu

1966 78 min

Overview

Noh mask maker is unable to carve the young Noh masks he has ordered, and when a beautiful woman invites him to join her in town for a change of pace, he has a mysterious experience, which may be a dream or reality. The film "Genjitsu" (幻日) was completed in the autumn of 1966, but has not been shown to the public. Adapted from Soseki Natsume's novel "Ten Nights of Dreams" with experimental music by Joji Yuasa, the film was long considered lost but re-surfaced in 2017 and was shown for the first time at Kobe Planet Film Archive.

Genres

Drama

Production Countries

Japan

Spoken Languages

Japanese ja

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Cast

Tsune Shibata

Ryōhei Uchida

Hideko Kawaguchi

Kohei Tsuzaki

Hirô Yamaguchi

Crew

Tetsuji Takechi

Director

Joji Yuasa

Music

Akira Takada

Cinematography

Toyojirô Nagashima

Producer

Posters

External Links

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