Genjitsu

Noh mask maker is unable to carve the young Noh masks he has ordered, and when a beautiful woman invites him to join her in town for a change of pace, he has a mysterious experience, which may be a dream or reality. The film "Genjitsu" (幻日) was completed in the autumn of 1966, but has not been shown to the public. Adapted from Soseki Natsume's novel "Ten Nights of Dreams" with experimental music by Joji Yuasa, the film was long considered lost but re-surfaced in 2017 and was shown for the first time at Kobe Planet Film Archive.

Country:

Japan

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

78 minutes

Year:

1966

Director:

Tetsuji Takechi

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Company:

Daisan Eiga-kai

Cast:
Tsune Shibata

Ryōhei Uchida

Hideko Kawaguchi

Kohei Tsuzaki

Hirô Yamaguchi

Crew:
Tetsuji Takechi

Director

Natsume Sōseki

Story

Tetsuji Takechi

Story

Joji Yuasa

Music

Akira Takada

Cinematography