Kagi (Odd Obsession)

Kenmochi, an antique connoisseur, has been suffering from aging and loss of energy. One night, when his wife Ikuko collapses in the bathroom after drinking brandy, he asks his daughter Toshiko’s lover Kimura help her to her bedroom. Kenmochi also seeks stimulation through Kimura by developing a film he took of Ikuko in her sleep, which shows her in an undignified state. What is the end of the world of these four strange and perverted lusts?

"In adapting Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s The Key, with its novel style of writing the husband’s diary in katakana and the wife’s diary in hiragana and then combining them into a single novel, I escaped from this wonderful format and composed the scenario in pursuit of dramatic elements different from those in the original novel. First of all, the motif was chosen to be negative, and the theme was a murder comedy. Negativity does not dissipate. It piles up in the mind. When a decision has to be made while depressed, it tries to vent explosively. And negatively. In other words, they are fixed on a form called intent to kill. So, the motifs come to be tied to the theme." (Interviews with the director in Eiga Hyōron, Geijutsu Shinchō, and Kyōto Shimbun)

PRODUCTION:
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PRODUCTION AT THE TIME OF FILMING:
DAIEI Co., Ltd.

WORLD SALES:
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2-13-12 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
102-8552 Tokyo, Japan
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E-mail: zeze-m@kadokawa.jp
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2-13-12 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
102-8552 Tokyo, Japan
Tel: + 81 80-9693-6348
E-mail: zeze-m@kadokawa.jp