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Kagero-za is a film of genre Drama directed by Seijun Suzuki released in france in DVD on 16 february 2021 with Yūsaku Matsuda
Kagero-za (1981)
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Add to a movie listKagerō-za (陽炎座, Heat-Haze Theatre) is a 1981 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on a novel by Kyōka Izumi. It forms the middle section of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and followed by Yumeji (1991), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912–1926) setting. All were produced by Genjirō Arato.
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Au début de l'ère Showa en 1926, les relations complexes entre le dramaturge Matsuzaki, la très belle Shinako, son client Tamawaki, et Ine, qui prétend être la femme de Tamawaki, mais dont il apprend qu'elle vient de mourir.Actors
Yūsaku Matsuda
(Shungo Matsuzaki)
Michiyo Okusu
(Shinako)
Katsuo Nakamura
(Tamawaki)
Yoshio Harada
(Wada)
Mariko Kaga
(Mio)
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