Odd Obsession

Odd Obsession
Directed by	Kon Ichikawa
Written by	Keiji Hasebe Kon Ichikawa Natto Wada
Based on	The Key (Tanizaki novel) by Junichirō Tanizaki
Produced by	Hiroaki Fujii Masaichi Nagata
Starring	Machiko Kyō Tatsuya Nakadai Nakamura Ganjirō II Jun Hamamura
Cinematography	Kazuo Miyagawa
Edited by	Hiroaki Fujii
Music by	Yasushi Akutagawa
Distributed by	Daiei Film
Release date	23 June 1959 (1959-06-23)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Odd Obsession (鍵, Kagi, lit. "The Key") is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize.^[1] It was based on the novel The Key, by Japanese novelist Junichirō Tanizaki.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Plot[]

A man who suspects his wife is having an affair with his daughter's fiancé places the two in dangerous situations in order to satisfy his voyeuristic curiosity.

Cast[]

Machiko Kyō as Ikuko Kenmochi
Nakamura Ganjirō II as Kenji Kenmochi
as Toshiko Kenmochi
Tatsuya Nakadai as Kimura
Jun Hamamura as Dr. Sōma
Tanie Kitabayashi as Hana
as Koike
Kyū Sazanka as Curio dealer
Ichirō Sugai as Masseur
Mantarō Ushio as Dr. Kodama

References[]

^ "Festival de Cannes: Odd Obsession". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 16 February 2009.
^ "鍵". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
^ "鍵". kotobank. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
^ "鍵". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

External links[]

Odd Obsession at IMDb
Odd Obsession at AllMovie
Odd Obsession at the TCM Movie Database

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Films directed by Kon Ichikawa

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1946–1973	The Battle of the Rails (1946) All About Eve (1951) We Are All Murderers (1952) Knave of Hearts (1954) Lost Continent (1955) The Mystery of Picasso (1956) Kanał / The Seventh Seal (1957) Mon Oncle (1958) Stars (1959) L'Avventura / Odd Obsession (1960) Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) The Trial of Joan of Arc / L'Eclisse (1962) Harakiri / The Cassandra Cat (1963) Woman in the Dunes (1964) Kwaidan (1965) Alfie (1966) Z (1969) The Falcons / The Strawberry Statement (1970) Love / Joe Hill (1971) Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) The Hourglass Sanatorium / The Invitation (1973)
1980–2000	The Constant Factor (1980) Kharij (1983) Colonel Redl (1985) Thérèse (1986) Yeelen / Shinran: Path to Purity (1987) A Short Film About Killing (1988) Jesus of Montreal (1989) Hidden Agenda (1990) Europa / Out of Life (1991) Dream of Light / An Independent Life (1992) The Puppetmaster / Raining Stones (1993) La Reine Margot (1994) Don't Forget You're Going to Die / Carrington (1995) Crash (1996) Western (1997) Class Trip / Festen (1998) The Letter (1999) Blackboards / Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
2002–present	Divine Intervention (2002) At Five in the Afternoon (2003) Tropical Malady (2004) Shanghai Dreams (2005) Red Road (2006) Persepolis / Silent Light (2007) Il Divo (2008) Thirst / Fish Tank (2009) A Screaming Man (2010) Polisse (2011) The Angels' Share (2012) Like Father, Like Son (2013) Mommy / Goodbye to Language (2014) The Lobster (2015) American Honey (2016) Loveless (2017) Capernaum (2018) Bacurau / Les Misérables (2019) Ahed's Knee / Memoria (2021)

show v t Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Foreign Film – Foreign Language 1949–1972	Bicycle Thieves (1949) Genevieve / The Lady of the Camelias / No Way Back / Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) Children, Mother, and the General / Dangerous Curves / Eyes of Children / Ordet / Stella (1955) Before Sundown / A Girl in Black / Roses on the Arm / War and Peace / The White Reindeer (1956) Confessions of Felix Krull / Tizoc / Yellow Crow (1957) Girl and the River / The Road a Year Long / Rosemary (1958) Aren't We Wonderful? / Black Orpheus / The Bridge / Odd Obsession / Wild Strawberries (1959) The Truth / The Virgin Spring (1960) Two Women (1961) Divorce Italian Style (1962) Any Number Can Win (1963) Marriage Italian Style (1964) Juliet of the Spirits (1965) A Man and a Woman (1966) Live for Life (1967) War and Peace (1968) Z (1969) Rider on the Rain (1970) The Policeman (1971) The Emigrants / The New Land (1972)
Foreign Film 1973–1985	The Pedestrian (1973) Scenes from a Marriage (1974) Lies My Father Told Me (1975) Face to Face (1976) A Special Day (1977) Autumn Sonata (1978) La Cage aux Folles (1979) Tess (1980) Chariots of Fire (1981) Gandhi (1982) Fanny and Alexander (1983) A Passage to India (1984) The Official Story (1985)
Foreign Language Film 1986–present	The Assault (1986) My Life as a Dog (1987) Pelle the Conqueror (1988) Cinema Paradiso (1989) Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) Europa Europa (1991) Indochine (1992) Farewell My Concubine (1993) Farinelli (1994) Les Misérables (1995) Kolya (1996) Ma vie en rose (1997) Central Station (1998) All About My Mother (1999) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) No Man's Land (2001) Talk to Her (2002) Osama (2003) The Sea Inside (2004) Paradise Now (2005) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Waltz with Bashir (2008) The White Ribbon (2009) In a Better World (2010) A Separation (2011) Amour (2012) The Great Beauty (2013) Leviathan (2014) Son of Saul (2015) Elle (2016) In the Fade (2017) Roma (2018) Parasite (2019) Minari (2020)

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