This Transient Life Explained

This Transient Life
Director:	Akio Jissoji
Producer:	Toyoaki Dan Kinshirô Kuzui
Starring:	Ryō Tamura Michiko Tsukasa
Music:	Toru Fuyuki
Cinematography:	Yuzo Inagaki Masao Nakabori Kazumi Oneda
Editing:	Yoshihiro Yanagawa
Studio:	Art Theatre Guild Jissoji Productions
Distributor:	Art Theatre Guild
Runtime:	143 minutes
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

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

• Ryō Tamura as Masao (brother)
• Michiko Tsukasa as Yuri (sister)
• Kozo Yamamura as father
• Kin Sugai as mother
• Kotobuki Hananomoto as Iwashita (the servant)
• Akiji Kobayashi
• Eiji Okada as Mori (the sculptor)
• Mitsuko Tanaka as Mori's second wife
• Isao Sasaki as Mori's Son
• Minori Terada
• Haruhiko Okamura as Ogino (Buddhist priest)

Notes and References

1. Web site: 無常 . . 19 March 2017.
2. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=143321. ja:無常 (1970). 25 September 2014. allcinema. Stingray. Japanese.
3. Web site: 無常とは . kotobank. January 22, 2019 .
4. Web site: Winners of the Golden Leopard . 12 August 2012 . Locarno . https://web.archive.org/web/20090719031720/http://www.pardo.ch/jahia/Jahia/home/Festival/History/Winners-of-the-Golden-Leopard/lang/en . 19 July 2009 . dead .