Genji Monogatari 10

Animated Film from 1987.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYwJaO88mm4
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwY7FsKU_I
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoUBNCbT-TA
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCKvV4BvLWs
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9RArp5seBw
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPzBt9UD1nE
Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxgfcpnM8Bg
Part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXBAEDq-Dqs
Part 9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOp2CkBmiAY
Part 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kThiip-F9M
Part 11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmw6hvyOz5U

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Tale
• of
• Genji
• animated
• 1987

[theproplady]

This production is very Kubrickian in it's style. Not just the funky 2001 ending, but the pacing and the use of encoded visual symbology. I wonder if the makers of this film were influenced by Kubrick's films in any way.

[Motoss]

@theproplady I wouldn't say so.  Heavy use of imagery has been standard in a lot of Japanese films since the 1930s.

[SDSakuragi]

It's not so much faithlessness that causes his loneliness. Heian society was fairly "free" and polygamy was not uncommon, especially among the social elite. Genji's problem is that he's constantly searching for something that does not exist, ie his mother. So despite his prodigious list of conquests, he is ultimately unfulfilled in his search. But because he's such an emotional dandy, he can't see that his misery is of his own creation; he chooses to believe that it is the women abandoning him.

[ItariShun]

Genji is being abducted by aliens lol!!!

[hektor6766]

All of these characters are trapped in a decadent, moribund feudal society, the elite as much as the peasants. Such a claustrophobic feeling. Who can doubt such a top-heavy society would soon collapse under its own weight?

[890buddha]

@theproplady what on earth are you talking about?!

you could just as easily say it is similar to the X factor or harry potter.

[theproplady]

@Motoss Then it may be a case of Kubrick being inspired by the Japanese.

[890buddha]

genji had sex with murasaki.

[Quy4life]

this dude has sex with tons of girls, young and old, [boy] and girls

[mattiathekaiju]

Its sex time!

[wildwildwest1]

@SDSakuragi

thanks for the explanation - it helps a lot in understanding this movie :)

[DarkOnyx98]

XD okay, i'm sorry but when it starts the whole blue light tunnel type thing, made me think I was watching Doctor Who.. the old dr who that had the wild gene wilder hair and striped scarf around his neck not the new one that plays now.. Watched it as a kid so that scene made me think that's what I was watching for a brief moment. XD. FLASHBACK... anyway.. awesome movie.. great effects on this at times. love the story too. AWESOME!!!