Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer，director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926). Yoso means "esoteric priest" which implies "sorcerer." For such a rarely screened film, it seems to have attracted an unwieldy number of English titles: The Sorcerer, Ghostly Priest, Bronze Magician, Phantom Priest, & on the subtitled 35 mm print the only fully apropos title, Priest & Empress, not to be confused with another Raizo Ichikawa film called The Priest & the Beauty (Anchin to Kyohima, 1960). Japan of the Nara Era had a sovereign female emperor or Mikado, Koken-Shotoku Tenno, who fell under the sway of a Buddhist priest named Dokyo. His influence over her proved so untoward that Empress Koken-Shotoku gave him titles which implied the imperial line might actually pass to him should the Empress die, despite that the imperial line had been preserved as a single dynasty back into prehistory. The crisis engendered by Dokyo led to the banning of women ever again becoming Mikado, a decision periodically revisited including in our own generation when there stood a strong threat of no authentic male heir. The film takes this historical reality & makes of it a believable though tough & very odd love story. Dokyo, who has indeed been called "the Japanese Rasputin," is here played by Raizo Ichikawa. Though Dokyo clearly uses the affections of the Empress (played by the ethereally beautiful Yukiko Fuji) for personal gain & power, his intense devotion to Shotoku is nevertheless no falsehood. When it comes time for his assassination, it is very much Rasputin-like, as he is damnably difficult to kill. It's portrayed quite horrifically but it remains simultaneously sorrowful because his love of Shotoku was no pose.
| Mtime评分 | 暂无评分 |
|---|---|
| 上映地区 | 日本 |
| 上映时间 | 1963 |
| 中文名 | 妖僧 |
| 原始名称 | 妖僧 |
| 国家 | 日本 |
| 外文名 | yoso |
| 子类型 | 剧情 |
| 导演 | 衣笠贞之助 |
| 年份 | 1963 |
| 摄影 | 今井宏 |
| 片长 | 98分钟 |
| 类别 | 电影 |
| 精选上位词 | 电影 |
| 英文名 | yoso |
| 评论 | 0 条影评 |
| 语言 | 日语 |
| 豆瓣短评数量 | 7 |
| 豆瓣长评作者 | 近似无限透明的蓝色 |
| 豆瓣长评数量 | 1 |
| 豆瓣长评时间 | 2015-01-07 |
| 豆瓣长评标题 | 关于妖僧的历史 |
yoso means "esoteric priest" which implies "sorcerer." for such a rarely screened film,it seems to have attracted a...