Archive of films Spider Tattoo / Irezumi
Japan
1966, 86 min
Section:
Tribute to Yasuzô Masumura
Year: 2023
Synopsis
Long before the modern female revenge genre came into existence, there was The Spider Tattoo, Masumura’s mysterious, ferocious Edo-era fable. Ayako Wakao is Otsuya, the daughter of a wealthy merchant who gets kidnapped and forced into prostitution. A demented tattoo artist engraves a large, black, human-faced spider on her back that turns her into a murderess, hell-bent on annihilating the men who abused her. A star-studded collaboration adapted from renowned author Jun’ichirō Tanizaki's novel by writer-director Kaneto Shindô (The Naked Island, Onibaba) and photographed by the legendary Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu) in entrancing, sumptuous Eastmancolor, The Spider Tattoo is Masumura’s most visually striking film.
Joseph Fahim
Contacts
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Japan
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About the film
Color, DCP
Section: | Tribute to Yasuzô Masumura |
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Director: | Yasuzô Masumura |
Screenplay: | Kaneto Shindo podle předlohy / based on the novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki |
Dir. of Photography: | Kazuo Miyagawa |
Music: | Hajime Kaburagi |
Sound: | Masao Osumi |
Editor: | Kanji Suganuma |
Art Director: | Yoshinobu Nishioka |
Production: | DAIEI studio, Kadokawa Corporation |
Cast: | Ayako Wakao. Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto |
Sales: | Kadokawa Corporation |