Crimson Dream

Year: 1964

Runtime: 74 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Tetsuji Takechi

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Takechi’s third feature adapts two short stories by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki and portrays the lurid, violently erotic dreams of a writer, his wife and his sister after a night of drinking and attending sex shows. The government imposed extensive censorship, cutting roughly 20 % of the original runtime; the excised footage is now considered lost, and the film was heavily censored before it was permitted to be released.

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