The Living Koheiji

The Living Koheiji

1982. Japan. Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. Screenplay by Nakagawa, based on a play by Senzaburo Suzuki. With Fumihiko Fujima, Junko Miyashita, Shoji Ishibashi. After a 13-year hiatus, Nakagawa, a master of the immensely popular Japanese ghost genre, returned to the studio one last time to make his most intense, and perhaps most beautiful, film. Nakagawa stages his love triangle among a traveling Kabuki player, his wife and her lover—a drama about love, jealousy and death—as a theatrically stylized yet intimate play between illusion and reality. In Japanese; English subtitles. 78 min.