The Crucified Lovers

The Crucified Lovers

The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.

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Release Date

11/23/1954

Runtime

102 mins

Overview

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

-

Revenue

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Homepage

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A tragic romance that transforms false accusation into genuine passion, culminating in a doomed escape that feels both liberating and fated to end in sorrow. A masterwork of desire thwarted by rigid social hierarchies and inevitable fate.

Mood

RomanticMelancholicMournfulTense

Themes

LoveBetrayalFreedom

Tone

Operatic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

PainterlyFormalist

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Suicide and self-harm

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