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Yûwakusha

Yûwakusha

1989Movie⏱️ 1h 49m
DramaMysteryRomance
6.1
IMDB Rating
62 votes

Love triangles are fun. They are especially fun with the involved including a psychiatrist, his secretary and a patient. Throw in a patient with multiple personalty disorder with a part-time homicidal rage and a smitten, and there...

Director
Shunichi Nagasaki
Writers
Shunichi Nagasaki, Goro Nakajima, Tomoko Ogawa
Stars
Kumiko Akiyoshi, Masao Kusakari, Kiwako Harada
Release Date
April 27, 1990
Language
Japanese
Country
Japan
🏆 2
Wins
💬 1
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

👤
Kumiko Akiyoshi
as Miyako Shinohara
👤
Masao Kusakari
as Kazuhiko Sotomura
👤
Kiwako Harada
as Harumi Yoshii
👤
Tsutomu Isobe
as Hiraide
👤
Takashi Naitô
as Shinbori
👤
Junkichi Orimoto
as Parking attendant
Renji Ishibashi
Renji Ishibashi
as Tsuburagi
Tomoko Ôtakara
Tomoko Ôtakara
as Girl on a bike
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Yoko Amemiya
👤
Mari Asazato

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Sound
Mono
Production
Black Box, Cinemahout, Fuji Television Network (Fuji TV)

🏷️ Keywords

lgbtlgbtqhomosexualbisexualpsychiatrist

🎯 Categories

JapaneseDramaMysteryRomance

⭐ Featured Review

Layered, dark, yet gentle psychological thriller
by shanbhattacharya_2020-06-23
7/10

"Veteran actor Masao Kusakari (Masahiro Shinoda's 'Himiko', Kon Ichikawa's 'Virus') plays a pragmatic, empathetic psychiatrist in this thriller set in the peak urban utopia of pre-recession Japan of 1980s. Underneath the main storyline that consists of him taking an unhealthy interest in one of his patients with dangerous multiple-personality disorder, there runs a subtle undercurrent of discontent and disenchantment with the urban existence, although that becomes truly visible in the last act. There's also a light, gentle quality to this film, despite having ..."

📖 Synopsis

Love triangles are fun. They are especially fun with the involved including a psychiatrist, his secretary and a patient. Throw in a patient with multiple personalty disorder with a part-time homicidal rage and a smitten, and there...