Primavera en Akitsu

Yoshida here asks: what if we made a melodrama about doomed lovers, but really, really Japanese? A woman running a hot springs inn begins an affair with a sickly man, with tragic results. It got exactly as maudlin as you feared it might.

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Yoshishige Yoshida directed Primavera en Akitsu in 1962. See Yoshishige Yoshida's full filmography, where to start with Yoshishige Yoshida, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yoshishige Yoshida.

Primavera en Akitsu was released in 1962 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 113 minutes.