The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
Direction
Kinoshita's unflinching static frames trap characters like specimens.
Acting
Igawa's thousand-yard stare carries entire film's moral weight.
Cinematography
Deep focus compositions where background tells the real story.
Director
Keisuke Kinoshita
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Occupation-era censorship, the film smuggles sharp social critique through 'women's picture' conventions that American censors dismissed as trivial.
Kinoshita shot this in eleven days between two major productions, treating it as a 'palate cleanser' that accidentally became his most formally rigorous work.
JP
