This Transient Life
Film poster
Directed byAkio Jissoji
Written byToshirô Ishidô
Produced by
  • Toyoaki Dan
  • Kinshirô Kuzui
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byYoshihiro Yanagawa
Music byToru Fuyuki
Production
companies
Distributed byArt Theatre Guild
Release date
  • 8 August 1970 (1970-08-08)
Running time
143 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

This Transient Life (無常, Mujō) is a 1970 Japanese erotic drama film directed by Akio Jissoji, in his feature directorial debut.[1][2] It is the first film in Jissoji's Buddhist Trilogy. Starring Ryō Tamura and Michiko Tsukasa, it follows a young man who falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk from a nearby Buddhist Monastery finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.[3][4]

Cast

References

  1. "無常". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  2. 無常 (1970). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  3. "無常とは". kotobank. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  4. "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
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