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Director Max Ophuls
Stars Michiko Tanaka, Sessue Hayakawa, Pierre Richard-Willm, Camille Bert
Certificate NC
Running time 90 minutes
Made France 1937

Reviewed by Nic O

OPHULS' tragic melodrama about the doomed romance between a Russian officer and a Japanese geisha on the eve of the Sino-Japanese was initially dismissed by many - including the director himself - but deserves a re-appraisal, not least for its use of characteristic Ophuls themes in Mizoguchi territory.

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