Yumeji (1991) on Netflix
In Taishō-era Japan, Yumeji Takehisa works as a painter and poet. He becomes involved with a beautiful widow whose past is dark. Their meeting is an imagined one.
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- Netflix3.5/5
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Plot summary
A semi-faithful account of the artist's life, the film imagines an encounter between the painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa and a beautiful widow whose past is dark, and follows the involvement that grows between them. The setting is Taishō-era Japan, the period that ran from 1912 to 1926. The film is the closing part of a trilogy, after Zigeunerweisen and Kagero-za, and the three share a style, themes and the Taishō setting.
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