Whirlpool of Flesh

• Saturday, May 31, 8:30 p.m. Cinema in the German Film Museum
  (Tickets only available at the German Film Museum)
• Onna no uzu to fuchi to nagare
  おんなの渦と渕と流れ
• Director: Ko NAKAHIRA
• Script: Masashige NARUSAWA based on a novel by Eiji SHINBA
• Camera: Yoshihiro YAMAZAKI
• Music: Toshiro MAYUZUMI
• World Sales: Nikkatsu Corporation
• Actors: Noboru NAKAYA, Kazuko INANO, Kazuo KITAMURA, Yuko KUSUNOKI, Kinshiro IWAO

Living in Manchuria on the eve of the Second World War, Nunami and Sugaku accept an arranged marriage despite their different expectations and aspirations. Nunami misses intellectual conversations and Sugaku feels more at home in her bar. When Nunami tells her that he observed her with her lover they decide to move to Tokyo to make a new start. There Nunami meets Shimura, an office colleague with whom he enjoys the long desired conversations. Sugaku takes a decision with grave consequences. WHIRLPOOL OF FLESH is one of four experimental and existentialist black-and-white films NAKAHIRA made in 1964.

Kindly supported by the Japan Foundation.