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7.3/10 Letterboxd Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara Music by Toshiro Mayuzumi Initial release 18 February 1967 (Japan) Music director Toshiro Mayuzumi | 7.2/10 IMDb 4.1/5 Mubi Produced by Kazu Otsuka Cinematography Yoshio Mamiya Director Koreyoshi Kurahara Producer Kazu Otsuka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Screenplay by Toshiya Fujita
Koreyoshi Kurahara Based on Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima Screenplay Koreyoshi Kurahara, Toshiya Fujita Cast Ruriko Asaoka, Tetsuo Ishidate, Nobuo Nakamura, Akira Yamanouchi, Yuko Kusunoki Similar Conflagration, The School of Flesh, Fighting Elegy, The Warped Ones, Black Sun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thirst for Love (Japanese: 愛の渇き Ai no kawaki) is a 1967 Japanese drama film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara, starring Nobuo Nakamura and Ruriko Asaoka. It is also known as Longing for Love and The Thirst for Love. It tells the story of a young widow who becomes the mistress of her wealthy father-in-law. The film is based on the novel Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima.
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Fernando F. Croce wrote for Slant Magazine in 2011, when the film was released on DVD by The Criterion Collection: "Kurahara makes use of an ample arsenal of cinematic effects—abrupt disjunctions of sound and image, intertitles alternating with inner monologues, strategic flashes of lurid color following sudden bloodbaths—to visualize the voluptuous turmoil of Mishima’s avant-garde writing, all while exploring his own motifs of fears and desires churning under tidy surfaces."