One of Suzuki's hidden gems with a story comparable to the works of Kenji Mizoguchi and all the visual flair you'd expect from Suzuki. Great movie!

This movie made me cry. Oh, the ridiculusly dangerous things we do for love, like running for miles through a battlefield

Suzuki in his formative mode, you really feel like this is a director who has something to say now. There are certain moments and effects achieved that I don't think will ever leave my mind.

This is a true hidden masterpiece. Suzuki marries his constant attack on screen conventions with narrative outrage: from fantastical, perverse slow-motion sequences that scream conflict, to shards of film, ripping apart, destroying the Id of his characters literally on the screen itself. The tone and theme have unusual bite for Suzuki, who seems to masterfully depict the powerful existential - and caustically anti-National - reality of his heroine.

Very serious for Suzuki. I wonder if it was in any way a response to Kobayshi's Human Condition trilogy, they seemed to share a lot of the same elements.