Akitsu Hot Springs

Original title: 秋津温泉

113 minutes • 1962 • 6.5 Score

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.

Yoshishige Yoshida

Director