
Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)
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.
Actors: Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sō Yamamura, Jūkichi Uno, Eijirō Tōno, Fukuko Sayo, Sumiko Hidaka, Teruo Yoshida, Mari Yoshimura, Mutsuko Sakura
Country: Japan