Zigeunerweisen (Tsigoineruwaizen) (1981)
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84% of users liked it
(147 ratings)
This is an enigmatic and challenging film in many ways. It is set in the 1930s and colored with nuances of the strange and sinister, one component of the Nazis' "world view" at that time. Japan's connections to Germany during this period leading up to World War II are brought… More This is an enigmatic and challenging film in many ways. It is set in the 1930s and colored with nuances of the strange and sinister, one component of the Nazis' "world view" at that time. Japan's connections to Germany during this period leading up to World War II are brought forward in the German title, the name of a song by Pablo Sarasate that is a part of the story. This tale features the relationship between a Japanese professor of German and Nakasago (Yoshio Harada), a former friend he runs into while on vacation. Nakasago has been charged with murdering a married woman who ran away with him. As the two former friends become more and more involved, the professor begins to get a glimpse of Nakasago's odd life, and undertones of witchcraft provide an eerie overlay to the fate of the missing woman. Cerebral and intriguing, the film seems to take place on several levels at once. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Directed By
- Seijun Suzuki
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 1, 1980 Wide
Critic Reviews
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John Behling, Slant Magazine
Although Suzuki is one of the easiest directors to find on DVD in the U.S., this series is critical for understanding the visual brilliance that you only get a taste of in his better-known films like Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter.
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John Behling, Slant Magazine
Suzuki retires the cumbersome plots and predictable settings of his genre films, and lends his bizarre, outrageous, and completely visual language to a bona fide art film.
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Cast
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Yoshio Harada
as Nakasago
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Naoko Otani
as Koine/Sono
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Toshiya Fujita
as Aochi
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Michiyo Okusa
as Shuko
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Akaji Maro
as Binder
