Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow

Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow

Koiya koi nasu na koi
🎞️ Movie 109 min JP
โ˜… 7.2 /10 1962

Uchida’s strangest and most stylized film is a visual feast, adapted by Yoshikata Yoda from a traditional puppet play. Dispensing with naturalism, Uchida uses expressionist sets and color schemes to convey the shifting states of mind of a protagonist driven mad by grief after his lover is killed. Some scenes are shot against theatrical backdrops inspired by kabuki theater and traditional dance; others unfold on elaborately colored sets reminiscent of traditional screen paintings. The Mad Fox’s audacious artifice makes Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (1964) pale in comparison.

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

Hashizô Ôkawa
Hashizô Ôkawa
Abe no Yasuna
Michiko Saga
Michiko Saga
Sakaki no mae
Michiko Saga
Michiko Saga
Kuzu no ha
Michiko Saga
Michiko Saga
Vixen
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Onono Yosifuru
Jun Usami
Jun Usami
Kamo no Yasunori
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Chôichirô Kawarasaki
Sakuragi no Miya
Yoshi Katô
Yoshi Katô
Shoji
Kensaku Hara
Kensaku Hara
Fujiwara no Nakahira
Eijirô Yanagi
Eijirô Yanagi
Fujiwara no Tadahira
Sumiko Hidaka
Sumiko Hidaka
Dowager
Kikue Môri
Kikue Môri
Old Woman Fox
Chûji Kinoshita
Chûji Kinoshita
Composer
๐Ÿ‘ค
Sadaji Yoshida
Cinematographer

๐ŸŽฌ Videos

The Mad Fox Original Trailer (Tomu Uchida, 1962) HD
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Trailer
The Mad Fox Original Trailer (Tomu Uchida, 1962) HD