Manji (film)

Manji
Japanese DVD cover of 1964 release
Japanese卍
Directed byYasuzo Masumura
Written byKaneto Shindō
Based onQuicksand by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Produced bySaito Yonejiro[1]
Starring
CinematographyKobayashi Setuo[1]
Edited byTatsuji Nakasizu (中静達治)[1]
Music byTadashi Yamauchi[1]
Production
company
Release date
  • 25 July 1964 (1964-07-25)[1]
Running time
91 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Manji (Japanese: 卍, Manji), titled Swastika in English, is a 1964 Japanese drama film directed by Yasuzo Masumura,[2][3] starring Ayako Wakao and Kyōko Kishida. The screenplay written by Kaneto Shindō is based on the 1928 novel Quicksand by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. The theme of sexual excess includes homosexuality between women.

The 1964 release of Manji is the first film adaptation of the novel.[4] It was followed by four additional film versions, in 1983, 1998, 2006, and 2023.

Synopsis

Sonoko, a bored married woman, falls for a fellow art student, the young and beautiful Mitsuko. The relationship develops and starts to affect and involve their partners.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "卍". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  2. ^ Première (in French). Hachette Filipacchi Associés. 2005.
  3. ^ Buckley, Sandra, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture (1st ed.). London, England: Routledge. pp. 198, 298, 501. ISBN 978-0415143448.
  4. ^ Bienati, Luisa; Ruperti, Bonaventura, eds. (2009). The Grand Old Man and the Great Tradition: Essays on Tanizaki Jun'ichiro in Honor of Adriana Boscaro. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan. pp. 125–128. doi:10.3998/mpub.9340226. ISBN 978-1929280551.
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