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Directed by. Masahiro Shinoda. Japan, 1979. Fantasy, Romance. 123. Synopsis. The time is 1933. Tamazawa Gakuen (Tsutomo Yamazaki) travelling from the south is searching for his vanished friend Akira (Go Kato), who, it turns out, has settled down with Yuri as hermits near Demon Pond. Synopsis.
Jul 7, 2021 · Yashagaike (Demon Pond), Masahiro Shinoda, 1979 4K restoration from the original 35 mm negative provided by Shōchiku Remastering of sound by Shōchiku MediaWorX Inc. Remastering of the image by Imagica Entertainment Media Services, Inc.
Aug 17, 2021 · Masahiro Shinoda 's Demon Pond ( Yashagaike ), adapted from one of Izumi's best-known plays, exhibits two key strands of Izumi's work: it has the simplicity and directness of a fable, but also the complexity of modern fiction. Only seen briefly outside of Japan when it first appeared in 1979, it's spend decades in near-limbo, with only the ...
Demon Pond. Myth, magic, and mystery suffuse Masahiro Shinoda’s oneiric 1979 adaptation of Demon Pond, a fabular play by the renowned Kyoka Izumi. Wandering through the countryside, a schoolteacher (Tsutomu Yamazaki) arrives at a village suffering from severe drought. There, he discovers his long-lost friend, Akira (Go Kato), who is now ...
Demon Pond (play), a 1913 play by Kyōka Izumi. Demon Pond (1979 film), a 1979 film adaptation of the Izumi play directed by Masahiro Shinoda. Demon Pond (film), a 2005 film adaptation of Keishi Nagatsuka's revision of Izumi's play directed by Takashi Miike.
“DEMON POND” is a story about with world of fantasy and legend written by Kyoka Izumi. Directed by master, Masahiro Shinoda and the lead played by Tamasaburo Bando who is the leading Kabuki actor in Japan combining traditional performing arts and film making.
Stunning. A beautiful tale of intersecting romances, duty to the dead, fealty to the gods, tribal mysticism, and the conflict between nature and industrialisation. Never one to take the simple route, Miike's version of Demon Pond eschews the original Meiji era play, opting instead for a rewritten version of the story by comedian Keishi Nagatsuka.
