The Affair

 

A representative installment in Yoshida’s series of so-called “anti-melodramas”, which although being directed by a man form one of the few instances of filmmaking from the female point of view in the overwhelmingly male-dominated Japanese cinema. To quote Yoshida, “Women, who are the object of male desire, have the freedom to look back. This woman takes up the challenge by turning this freedom [...]

Runtime

101 min