Yumeji

Part of director Seijun Suzuki's absurdist Taisho trilogy, this surreal tale follows 1920s painter Yumeji Takehisa (Kenji Sawada), who strays from his lover when he falls for the beautiful and newly widowed Tomoyo (Tomoko Mariya). Meanwhile, Tomoyo's slain husband, Wakiya (Yoshio Harada), returns from the dead to torment his murderer, the jealous Onimatsu (Kazuhiko Hasegawa), who hopes to put the ghost to rest for good.

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The third and final movie in the Taisho trilogy is my least favorite of the three. Suzuki's beautiful imagery is about the only thing I can gush about with Yumeji. Like the other two films, the pace is rather slow but almost painfully so with this one. The story is rather succinct at first but then it veers off the path into the area of the absurd. Other than the era in which the movies are set, they are not connected and can stand alone as individual pieces. If you've made it this far into the Taisho trilogy, Yumeji is worth watching but do so at your own risk. If you're going to watch any film in the trilogy, I would recommend Kagero-Za.
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