Wuthering Heights (1988)

August 17, 2023 2:22 PM

Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess. A jidaigeki adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel.

Starring Yūko Tanaka, Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuo Nadaka, Eri Ishida.

Directed and written for the screen by Yoshishige Yoshida.

Average rating of 3.5 on Letterboxd.

Widely available streaming. JustWatch.

Soliloquy was kind enough to support MeFi with a donation. Their request was for six Japanese historical dramas about women. I'll be using the tag #Josei

Donate $25 or more to MeFi and you can MeMail me a request for a themed day of your own. I'll fill up the sidebar on FF with six movies that fit your theme.

posted by DirtyOldTown (3 comments total)

Bonus seventh film, because why not//

This one was tough, because jidaigeki are not well-represented in streaming for English speakers. Also, because if I'd posted the six "best" films, they'd have all been black and white 1950's dramas about prostitutes and unmarried older women making tough choices. And finally, stuff like Sansho the Bailiff got left off because I didn;t want *everything* to be Criterion only.

Also, if the rape/murder setup isn't too traumatic, Kuroneko is a fantastic ghost/horror story.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:25 PM on August 17, 2023

I think the JustWatch link is a different movie? I can't find the 1988 movie streaming legitimately but it's on archive dot org and there are subtitles here. hope it's not against site policy to link those
posted by okonomichiyaki at 6:34 AM on August 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

No problem at all! Sorry for the error and nice save!
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:34 AM on August 18, 2023