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Kagero-za

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Kagerō-za
Directed bySeijun Suzuki
Written byYōzō Tanaka
Kyōka Izumi (novel)
Produced byGenjirō Arato
StarringYūsaku Matsuda
Michiyo Okusu
Katsuo Nakamura
Eriko Kusuda
CinematographyKazue Nagatsuka
Edited byAkira Suzuki
Music byKaname Kawachi
Distributed byCinema Placet
Genjirō Amato Pictures
Release date
  • July 31, 1981 (1981-07-31)
Running time
139 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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.

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References

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  1. ^ "陽炎座". kinenote. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  2. ^ 陽炎座とは (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
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