Inemuri Iwane

I don't know the source material, I haven't seen Kagerō no Tsuji, but it's pretty clear to me that although this film is very visually appealing, the acting juicy and the costumes brilliant, it lacks a connection with the viewer. Events move so fast and relationships change at such a rapid pace that you can't form a proper connection, the film fails to fully convey the depth of the pain the characters are experiencing. And so you just look sometimes at the shifting images and think that the characters are either very shallow or so complex that the film's brevity can't conceive of them. Yes, I liked the film, but I didn't come away from it excited. Just a visually pretty trip to the Edo era. (31.12.2020)