Epitome

Original title: Shukuzu

1953
2h 11m

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Shusei Tokuda's starkly realistic novel about a poor girl pressed into becoming a geisha was forcefully adapted by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). When Ginko (Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) falls in ... Read allShusei Tokuda's starkly realistic novel about a poor girl pressed into becoming a geisha was forcefully adapted by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). When Ginko (Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) falls in love with one of her clients, she is handily rebuffed by the young man's wealthy family, a... Read allShusei Tokuda's starkly realistic novel about a poor girl pressed into becoming a geisha was forcefully adapted by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). When Ginko (Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) falls in love with one of her clients, she is handily rebuffed by the young man's wealthy family, and left to wander from geisha house to geisha house.

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7.2/10

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To be honest, I didn't make it all the way through this one, but no-one else has bothered to review it so I felt I ought to leave something. While making my way through the films of Kaneto Shindo, I've started to encounter some that just aren't speaking to me anything like his two great sixties masterworks Onibaba and Kuroneko. It's well-acted and otherwise put together but the story just isn't compelling enough for me to connect to it. I'm sure there are many others who would like it a lot more though.