Odd Obsession

An elderly Japanese man with a beautiful young wife finds it difficult to reconcile his feelings of desire with his decreasing potency in this "new interpretation of the love-death theme in which some of the most sordid of human actions are captured by means of the sheerest physical beauty…Erotic obsession is presented with such near-claustrophobic intensity that one longs for outdoor scenes…everything is hidden, secreted away" (Donald Richie). Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Japanese with English subtitles.