The Tale of Genji
Kōzaburō Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion
December 5 - 11, 2025
Kazuo Hasegawa stars as the titular prince, the emperor’s womanizing bastard son who cannot shake his fascination with his father’s young bride in Yoshimura’s admirable attempt to adapt Murasaki Shikibu’s early-11th-century novel.
Adapting Murasaki Shikibu’s early-11th-century novel—among the first novels ever written—Kōzaburō Yoshimura and Kaneto Shindō again teamed up for another striking portrait of social tension and the mysterious, complicated place of erotic desire in the development of Japan. Kazuo Hasegawa stars as the titular prince, the emperor’s womanizing bastard son who cannot shake his fascination with his father’s young bride. A moving and admirable attempt to adapt what is often regarded as an unadaptable novel, Yoshimura’s film zeroes in the destructive force of desire amid a rigid, socially stratified Japan in the Heian period. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
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