Movie

Yumeji

1991 · 128 min

A dreamlike, painterly drift through desire and death, gorgeous and disorienting, where images linger longer than logic.

Overview: Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
How it feels: Eerie, melancholic, romantic and whimsical. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Obsession, art, death, identity
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
art
death
identity
memory
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild