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The Scent of Incense

1964 · 203 min

A long, somber, deeply emotional journey through decades of hardship, watching a woman endure loss and struggle for dignity.

Overview
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • family
  • identity
  • grief
  • survival
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Keisuke Kinoshita
Written by
Keisuke Kinoshita
Starring
Mariko Okada, Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Gō Katō, Norihei Miki, Eiji Okada, Haruko Sugimura, Kazuo Kitamura
Music
Chūji Kinoshita
Cinematography
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Runtime
203 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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