This Transient Life

1970 film

  • Toyoaki Dan
  • Kinshirô Kuzui
Starring
Cinematography
  • Yuzo Inagaki
  • Masao Nakabori
  • Kazumi Oneda
Edited byYoshihiro YanagawaMusic byToru Fuyuki
Production
companies
  • Art Theatre Guild
  • Jissoji Productions
Distributed byArt Theatre Guild
Release date
  • 8 August 1970 (1970-08-08)
Running time
143 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapanese

This Transient Life (無常, Mujō) is a 1970 Japanese erotic drama film directed by Akio Jissoji, in his feature directorial debut.[1][2] It is the first film in Jissoji's Buddhist Trilogy. Starring Ryō Tamura and Michiko Tsukasa, it follows a young man who falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk from a nearby Buddhist Monastery finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.[3][4]

Cast

  • Ryō Tamura as Masao (brother)
  • Michiko Tsukasa as Yuri (sister)
  • Kozo Yamamura as father
  • Kin Sugai as mother
  • Kotobuki Hananomoto as Iwashita (the servant)
  • Akiji Kobayashi
  • Eiji Okada as Mori (the sculptor)
  • Mitsuko Tanaka as Mori's second wife
  • Isao Sasaki as Mori's Son
  • Minori Terada
  • Haruhiko Okamura as Ogino (Buddhist priest)

References

  1. ^ "無常". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  2. ^ 無常 (1970). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  3. ^ "無常とは". kotobank. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2012.

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  • This Transient Life (1970)
  • Ultraman (1979)
  • Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1987)
  • Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars (1990)
  • Murder on D Street (1998)
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