Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)

Cast

Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sō Yamamura, Jūkichi Uno, Eijirō Tōno

Overview

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.