Flora on the Sand

Flora on the Sand
  • Friday, May 30, 10:30 p.m. Cinema in the German Film Museum
    (Tickets only available at the German Film Museum)
  • Suna no ue no shokubutsugun
    砂の上の植物群
  • Japan 1964, 35mm, 95 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Director: Ko NAKAHIRA
  • Script: Ichiro IKEDA, Akira KATO, Ko NAKAHIRA based on a novel by Junnosuke YOSHIYUKI
  • Camera: Yoshihiro YAMAZAKI
  • Music: Toshiro MAYUZUMI
  • Word Sales: Nikkatsu Corporation
  • Actors: Noboru NAKAYA, Kazuko INANO, Mieko NISHIO, Yukiko SHIMAZAKI, Kinzo SHIN

Ichiro is obsessed with the idea that his wife had an affair with his deceased father for whom she modeled as a teenager. In search of the truth, he stumbles into an unsettling affair with Akiko and her sister. This very experimental and sexually explicit film is based on a novel by Junnosuke YOSHIYUKI, who was inspired by the Paul Klee painting of the same name. It foreshadows the Nikkatsu genre “Roman Porno”, which helped Nikkatsu avert bankruptcy.

Kindly supported by the Japan Foundation.
Japanisches Kulturinstitut

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