Combination of old traditions and modern technology. Kon Ichikawa used high-definition video equipment for this film, however only to a modest degree; it is only when the colour slowly fades from the picture and the contours seem to be rubbed out that the viewer is aware that the film-maker had access to advanced techniques.The protagonist Seishiro, a young man with the status of samurai, allows himself to be adopted by the noble family Hiramatsu to prevent it dying out. However just as his arranged marriage with Tomu is being prepared, he falls for a mysterious woman who says she has lost her memory.Kon Ichikawa (1915) at first made satirical comedies, but his sober dramas from the fifties and sixties turned out to be more popular with Western audiences.
