The thief and the geisha
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The thief and the geisha |
| Original title | え え じ ゃ な い か, Eejanaika |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Shōhei Imamura |
| script | Shōhei Imamura, Ken Miyamoto |
| music | Shinichirō Ikebe |
| camera | Masahisa Himeda |
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The thief and the geisha (original title: え え じ ゃ な い か, Eejanaika ) is a Japanese film by Shōhei Imamura from 1981 .
action
The film is set in Japan in the 1860s: the Edo period has ended and the Meiji period has not yet started. Japan experiences a brief period of opening to the West between two periods of isolation. Genji, a poor farmer, comes back to Japan after several years in exile in the USA and is looking for his wife Ine there. He notices that his wife has since been sold into prostitution by her father. The other protagonists are Itoman from Okinawa, who wants to avenge the murder of his family by a Japanese aristocrat, the former samurai Furukawa, who now lives with a prostitute in the underworld of Edo, and Kinzō, a petty criminal.
criticism
"Tiring historical film spectacle, artistically irrelevant and not convincing in its human and time-critical concerns."
Web links
- The thief and the Geisha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Review in the New York Times
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/19/movies/eijanaika-mid-19th-century-japan.html
- ↑ The thief and the geisha. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 16, 2017 .