Akitsu Hot Springs
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1hr
53mins
Directed by
Yoshishige Yoshida,
Masao Shirai,
Starring
Mariko Okada,
Hiroyuki Nagato,
Sō Yamamura,
Jūkichi Uno
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Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.