Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan, France
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well, but his ghost returns to haunt them as the local gossip intensifies.
- regret
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- sexual obsession
- suspicion of murder
- love
- revenge
- unfaithfulness
- strangulation
- hanging
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Akiko Koyama — Young Master's Mother
- Taiji Tonoyama — Toichiro
- Kenzō Kawarasaki — Young Master
- Sumie Sasaki — Odame
- Eizō Kitamura
- Takaaki Sugiura
- Akiyoshi Fujiwara
- Masami Hasegawa — Oshin
- Tatsuya Kimura
- Osugi — Dancer
- Rinichi Yamamoto — Kurazo
- Directed
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Written
- Nagisa Ōshima, Itoko Nakamura
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 138 ratings
- Studio
- TOHO-TOWA, Argos films, Oshima Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
