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Director
  
Kon Ichikawa

Music director
  
Yasushi Akutagawa

Language
  
Japanese

7.2/10
IMDb

7.1/10
Letterboxd

Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
Japan

Odd Obsession movie poster

Writer
  
Keiji Hasebe
,
Natto Wada

Release date
  
23 June 1959 (1959-06-23)

Based on
  
The Key (Tanizaki novel) by Junichiro Tanizaki

Screenplay
  
Kon Ichikawa, Junichiro Tanizaki, Natto Wada, Keiji Hasebe

Cast
  
Machiko Kyô
(Ikuko Kenmochi),
Ganjiro Nakamura
(Kenji Kenmochi),
Junko Kano
(Toshiko Kenmochi),
Tatsuya Nakadai
(Kimura)

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Odd Obsession (, Kagi, lit. "The Key") is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. It was based on the novel The Key, by Japanese novelist Junichirō Tanizaki.

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Plot

A man who suspects his wife is having an affair with his daughter's fiance places the two in dangerous situations in order to satisfy his voyeuristic curiosity.

Cast

  • Machiko Kyō as Ikuko Kenmochi
  • Ganjirō Nakamura as Kenji Kenmochi
  • Junko Kano as Toshiko Kenmochi
  • Tatsuya Nakadai as Kimura
  • Jun Hamamura as Dr. Sōma
  • Tanie Kitabayashi as Hana
  • Mayumi Kurata as Koike
  • Kyū Sazanka as Curio dealer
  • Ichirō Sugai as Masseur
  • Mantarō Ushio as Dr. Kodama
  • References

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