飢餓海峡
あらすじ
偶然に翻弄される人間の数奇な運命を、主人公の心の中に潜む善と悪を通して描き、みごとなスリラー形式の運命劇として内田吐夢の代表作となった。終戦間もない昭和22年。津軽海峡を襲った台風のため転覆した青函連絡船。だが収容した死体は乗客名簿より2名多かった…。.
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映画化された原作や関連書籍を読んで、映像との違いや独自の世界観を楽しみましょう。
偶然に翻弄される人間の数奇な運命を、主人公の心の中に潜む善と悪を通して描き、みごとなスリラー形式の運命劇として内田吐夢の代表作となった。終戦間もない昭和22年。津軽海峡を襲った台風のため転覆した青函連絡船。だが収容した死体は乗客名簿より2名多かった…。.
映画化された原作や関連書籍を読んで、映像との違いや独自の世界観を楽しみましょう。
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Sachiko Hidari ("Yae") is great in this film as the young geisha who shelters "Inukai" (Rentarô Mikuni) from a storm one night. Next morning he leaves her quite a sum of money - one that enables her to change her life, pay her debts - all whilst he disappears. That storm was actually a tornado that sank a local ferry boat. During that investigation, two unknown bodies are identified - and they are soon tied in with a fire that largely destroyed a local village where a robbery had taken place. Where had the money gone? Who killed the men? Many years later, "Yae" spots a photograph in a newspaper that she thinks might be her long lost benefactor and sets out to say thanks - with tragic consequences. It is a long film this, over 3 hours, but the clever - almost internecine - fashion in which the old and new stories are married together; the police investigations and the characterisations are carefully and fully crafted leaves us with quite a complex crime thriller. Now, sadly, what makes the thriller work so well is also what ruined the ending for me. It is flawed in so many ways as to make me want to shout at the screen. It's not that the ending itself is wrong, it is that the police procedures (remembering that there was little science involved in the process) are all just to convenient - far fetched, even. Still, this is a strongly paced, beautifully photographed piece of story-telling cinema that runs parallel narratives well and cohesively.
