{"id":18516,"date":"2026-03-31T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18516"},"modified":"2026-03-30T20:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:47:36","slug":"zigeunerweisen-1980-seijun-suzuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18516","title":{"rendered":"Zigeunerweisen (1980, Seijun Suzuki)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dream-logic stuff happens, shot in a dreamy way by resurgent Suzuki (his big comeback, according to people who didn&#8217;t see <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17682\">A Tale of Sorrow<\/a><\/em>).  Story of the titular sound recording where the composer&#8217;s voice can be heard on the recording is true, the characters sharing this story are a German professor, a guy named Nakasago who is maybe his colleague or maybe a random maniac he met on a beach, and the girl (a geisha in mourning and her various doppelgangers).  Between them, the three lead actors have been in all the weird Japanese movies: the prof in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12022\">Funeral Parade of Roses<\/a><\/em>, the girl in <em>The Human Bullet<\/em>, and Naka in <em>Farewell to the Ark<\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4842\">Izo<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2536\">Nightmare Detective<\/a><\/em>, not to mention the rest of Suzuki&#8217;s trilogy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/suzig1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/suzig2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sean Rogers in Cinema Scope:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A blood-red crab superimposed on a dead woman&#8217;s crotch, a bowl of pork fat grotesquely overfilled, a tongue erotically licking an eyeball in close-up, a man buried to the neck below riotously flourishing cherry blossoms \u2014 these visual flourishes originate entirely with the filmmaker, rather than the lean and fragmented short stories by the Taisho-era modernist Uchida Hyakken that serve as the film&#8217;s source material &#8230; Suzuki and screenwriter Tanaka Yozo, who scripted all the films of the trilogy, delight in setting up mysteries that are never resolved: Did Nakasago murder the woman on the beach? Did he seduce Aochi&#8217;s wife? Did Aochi himself sleep with Sono, or was she a ghost? And can Nakasago reclaim his daughter from O-Ine, even from beyond the grave?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/suzig3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/suzig4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dream-logic stuff happens, shot in a dreamy way by resurgent Suzuki (his big comeback, according to people who didn&#8217;t see A Tale of Sorrow). Story of the titular sound recording where the composer&#8217;s voice can be heard on the recording is true, the characters sharing this story are a German professor, a guy named Nakasago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,30,36,120,1664],"class_list":["post-18516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-identity","tag-japan","tag-seijun-suzuki","tag-sound-recording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18550,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516\/revisions\/18550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}