Hishu Monogatari
Nearly a decade after being fired by Nikkatsu Studios, Suzuki returned to the director’s chair with this titillating tale of a model who is groomed to become a professional golfer as a publicity stunt. When she turns out to be good at the sport, her success leads a deranged fan to hatch a blackmail scheme. “Riddled with the director's wildly non-conformist use of non-contiguous edits, unhinged shot composition, and violent splashes of colour, crazed and chaotic and for too long buried in the sand bunkers of obscurity, this long-overlooked work simply cries out for revival.” —Jasper Sharp, Midnight Eye.
35mm, color, in Japanese with English subtitles, 93 min. Production: Shochiku. Director: Seijun Suzuki. Based on a story by Ikki Kajiwara. Screenwriter: Atsushi Yamatoya. Cinematographer: Masaru Mori. Editor: Akira Suzuki. Music: Keitaro Miho, Ichiro Tomita. With: Kyoko Enami, Yoshio Harada, Masumi Okada, Shûji Sano, Yoko Shiraki.
