Vermilion Souls (Shureitachi / 朱霊ãŸã¡)
Russian title: Вермилион душ
Original title: Shureitachi / 朱霊ãŸã¡
Original title: Shureitachi / 朱霊ãŸã¡
Alternative titles:
Shureitachi – Vermilion Souls / Души цвета киновари
Shureitachi – Vermilion Souls / Души цвета киновари
Drama – Japan, France
Production year: 2006
Movie length: 104 minutes
Production year: 2006
Movie length: 104 minutes
Director: Masaki Iwana
Writer: Masaki Iwana
Cinematograph: Pascale Marin
Music: Bill Fairhall, Matt Grey, Alain Guisan, Hirokazu Hiraishi u.a.
Writer: Masaki Iwana
Cinematograph: Pascale Marin
Music: Bill Fairhall, Matt Grey, Alain Guisan, Hirokazu Hiraishi u.a.
Movie description:
The scene is Tokyo, seven years after World War II. Trying to catch leaflets falling from the sky, a young boy finds himself in a solitary country house with four people suffering from odd disease – Hizume, a calligrapher born without hands, and Nean, a former prostitute, Maria, who is deaf and blind and unable to move and Kakera, who has committed suicide. Guarding them is the lame Hinomaru, who shares in the solitude and isolation with his charges. They all await the end the government has promised them, hoping for a release from their disease and the nightmares of their past.
»Vermilion Souls« is fairly simple as surreal. It’s 1952 and a boy living on the outskirts of Tokyo follows leaflets being dropped by a low flying plane. The trail of leaflets lead him to a tract of restricted land owned by the Imperial family. Its here he discovers a medieval castle (Iwana actually filmed »Vermilion Souls« in a castle in Normandy) whose residents are afflicted by an unnamed disease. There is Hizume (Hiroshi Sawa), a calligrapher who must hold his brush between his teeth because his fingers are fused, Nean, a prostitute who bears the scars of a failed double suicide with her lover, Maria a mysterious, wheelchair bound woman who possesses the powers of an ancient oracle, and Kakera a corpse. A former kamikaze pilot, Hinomaru (Mohamed Aroussi), is given the task of guarding this strange group until an appointed day when they will be put out of their diseased misery and be gassed by Imperial authorities. The progression of these characters to that fateful day is presented in a series of dramatic and dance-inspired tableaus, hinting at a greater world outside the castle walls – the emotional horror and terrible privation of Japan in the years immediately following WW2. In many ways Iwana’s actors are like ghosts and I often wondered if this young boy had wandered into a haunted castle filled with the restless spirits of those torn from life during air raids, military assaults, and tradition dictated suicides.
»Vermilion Souls« is fairly simple as surreal. It’s 1952 and a boy living on the outskirts of Tokyo follows leaflets being dropped by a low flying plane. The trail of leaflets lead him to a tract of restricted land owned by the Imperial family. Its here he discovers a medieval castle (Iwana actually filmed »Vermilion Souls« in a castle in Normandy) whose residents are afflicted by an unnamed disease. There is Hizume (Hiroshi Sawa), a calligrapher who must hold his brush between his teeth because his fingers are fused, Nean, a prostitute who bears the scars of a failed double suicide with her lover, Maria a mysterious, wheelchair bound woman who possesses the powers of an ancient oracle, and Kakera a corpse. A former kamikaze pilot, Hinomaru (Mohamed Aroussi), is given the task of guarding this strange group until an appointed day when they will be put out of their diseased misery and be gassed by Imperial authorities. The progression of these characters to that fateful day is presented in a series of dramatic and dance-inspired tableaus, hinting at a greater world outside the castle walls – the emotional horror and terrible privation of Japan in the years immediately following WW2. In many ways Iwana’s actors are like ghosts and I often wondered if this young boy had wandered into a haunted castle filled with the restless spirits of those torn from life during air raids, military assaults, and tradition dictated suicides.
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