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Directed by | Seijun Suzuki |
Produced by | Genjirō Arato |
Written by | Yōzō Tanaka Kyōka Izumi (novel) |
Starring |
Yūsaku Matsuda Michiyo Okusu Katsuo Nakamura Eriko Kusuda |
Music by | Kaname Kawachi |
Cinematography | Kazue Nagatsuka |
Edited by | Akira Suzuki |
Distributed by | Cinema Placet Genjirō Amato Pictures |
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139 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Kagerō-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.