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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Based on a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this tongue-in-cheek melodrama by Japanese director Yasuzo Masumura tells the story of Sonoko (Kyoko Kishida), a housewife who becomes obsessed with another woman. Told in a series of flashbacks as she relates her tale to a novelist, the plot follows her entanglement with the young, beautiful Mitsuko (Ayako Wakao), who she meets at an art school for women. After convincing Mitsuko to pose nude for her they embark on an affair that leads to a number of double crosses and deceptions between the two women, Sonoko's husband (Eiji Funakoshi) and Mitsuko's fiancé (Yusuke Kawazu). ...All Mixed Up ( Manji ) ( Swastika )
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Don't enter the tent if you're expecting a steamy lesbian brief encounter. Japanese sensibility, thank the gods, is much more refined than something so crud. Besides in the liberated 21st C there is so much dial a porn why travel back to the 60's to criticise what never could have been.
What unfolds here is the depiction of need, fantasy, wish fulfillment and the use of allure to entice weakness and then to smash those lives upon the sharpened stakes of feminine guile.
The bored middle class housewife finds fantasy and reality in her art class friend, her saviour and her mortal danger. Her muse senses the need and draws her into her web. Initially entailing the victim to make small sacrifices until they become larger and larger to prove her love. Ending with the demand to enter oblivion at the behest of the siren.
Meanwhile her family is torn apart by the demands. The friend simply measures her beauty with the fawning and supplication of her vassals need.
It is slow placed, shot using various focal settings, capturing the essence of the claustrophobic worlds of need, desire and the avenging angel.
The naked bodies, scandalous in the 60's, now in an age of image bombardment, have a diminished potency. The beauty of the protagonist still projects as does her guile. It is difficult to gauge whether people are more psychologically aware than 4 decades ago. Judging by the comments on the film, I guess not. This is where the power of the film resides as an allegory of power, the femme fatale, the emotional vampire who sucks the vitality out of the needy. They know they are being used but in the grand scheme of the emotional panorama at least this is one form of acknowledgement, better to be used, than invisible to all.
What unfolds here is the depiction of need, fantasy, wish fulfillment and the use of allure to entice weakness and then to smash those lives upon the sharpened stakes of feminine guile.
The bored middle class housewife finds fantasy and reality in her art class friend, her saviour and her mortal danger. Her muse senses the need and draws her into her web. Initially entailing the victim to make small sacrifices until they become larger and larger to prove her love. Ending with the demand to enter oblivion at the behest of the siren.
Meanwhile her family is torn apart by the demands. The friend simply measures her beauty with the fawning and supplication of her vassals need.
It is slow placed, shot using various focal settings, capturing the essence of the claustrophobic worlds of need, desire and the avenging angel.
The naked bodies, scandalous in the 60's, now in an age of image bombardment, have a diminished potency. The beauty of the protagonist still projects as does her guile. It is difficult to gauge whether people are more psychologically aware than 4 decades ago. Judging by the comments on the film, I guess not. This is where the power of the film resides as an allegory of power, the femme fatale, the emotional vampire who sucks the vitality out of the needy. They know they are being used but in the grand scheme of the emotional panorama at least this is one form of acknowledgement, better to be used, than invisible to all.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
As a fan of classic japanese exploitation films I was completely satisfied by this one. Constant artistic flourishes and a gripping story told at a perfectly relaxed pace. It has the usual - "what the?!" - stuff going on. It's japanese - so just roll with it.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A pshychotic drama, this fast-paced movie isn't a very easy one. It is not a difficult movie either, but Manji demands your attention, as many characters are involved in a twisted relationship of love, lust and obsession. Intense and erotic, Manji is a shocking film even for todays standards!! Ayako Wakao is so beautiful and sexy that even women can't resist her!!!! This is an extraordinary film that i want to watch again.
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middle aged woman has a lesbian affair. everything is very claustrophobic. basically wife, husband and lover. there is nothing deep or interesting going on. Read more
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