Wuthering Heights

Arashi Ga Oka 1989
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Japan/Switzerland 1989
 
PLOT DESCRIPTION
This erotic and violent story taken from Emily Bronte's classic novel takes place in medieval Japan instead of 19th-century Yorkshire. Onimaru (Yasaku Matsuda) is an orphan boy taken in by a group of priests who worship the Mountain Of Fire and try to appease the gods of anger. He loves Kinu (Yuko Tanaka), the beautiful daughter of a local family. When she marries an heir to a rival family, his heart is broken. When she dies in childbirth, Onimaru loses what is left of his mind. ~ Dan Pavlides.

CAST FOR  'Arashi Ga Oka'
Yusaku Matsuda - Onimauru
Yuko Tanaka - Kinu
Tatsuo Nakaka - Mitauhiko
Eri Ishida - Tae
Nagare Hagiwara - Hidemaru
Keiko Itoh- Shoino
Masao Imafuku - Ichi
Tokuko Sugiyama - Sato
Shun Ueda - Suka
Tomoko Takaba - Kinu - Daughter
Masato Furuoya - Yoshimaru
Rentaro Mikuni - Takamaru

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Toru Takemitsu - Composer (Music Score)
Yoshiro Muraki - Art Director
Emily Brontė - Book Author
Tadaaki Shimada - Sound/Sound Designer

"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."