Director: Yoshida Kiju
Scriptwriter: Kijû Yoshida
after Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights
Cinematographer: Junichiro Hayashi
Editor: Takao Shirae
Sound: Yukio Kubota
Music: Toru Takemitsu
Cast: Yushaku Matsuda, Yuko Tanaka, Rentaro Mikuni
Production:
Seiyu (Kazunobu Yamaguo)
Distribution:
Sepia Production
5 passage du Pivert
75000 - Paris
France
Tel.: 0033 148078061
Fax.: 0033 148072982
Year: 1988
35 mm, Colour, 130 min, OV Japanese with French Subtitles.
In Medieval Japan, a young vagabond, is adopted by the Yamabe family, priests responsible for calming the anger of the Mountain of Fire. But Onimaru disrupts the hierarchies and challenges the religion's secular rites. He falls in love with Kim, the Yamabe's daughter, who marries the inheritor of the family's rival to escape her deestiny as a priestess. Torn apart by his thwarted passion, Onimaru becomes the Lord of the Mountain in order to win back his beloved. But Kimu dies and from that moment on Onimaru plunges into a cruelty which is only equalled by the love he stills feel for the beloved deceased.