
The Crucified Lovers
The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.
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Release Date
11/23/1954Runtime
102 minsOverview
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.
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JapaneseBudget
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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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