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Directed by | Seijun Suzuki |
Written by | Yōzō Tanaka Kyōka Izumi (novel) |
Produced by | Genjirō Arato |
Starring | Yūsaku Matsuda Michiyo Okusu Katsuo Nakamura Eriko Kusuda |
Cinematography | Kazue Nagatsuka |
Edited by | Akira Suzuki |
Music by | Kaname Kawachi |
Distributed by | Cinema Placet Genjirō Amato Pictures |
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Running time | 139 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Kagerō-za (陽炎座, Heat-Haze Theatre) is a 1981 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on a novel by Kyōka Izumi.[1][2] It forms the middle section of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and followed by Yumeji (1991), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912–1926) setting. All were produced by Genjirō Arato.