Odd Obsession

Odd Obsession
Directed by	Kon Ichikawa
Produced by	Hiroaki Fujii Masaichi Nagata
Written by	Keiji Hasebe Kon Ichikawa Natto Wada
Based on	The Key (Tanizaki novel) by Junichirō Tanizaki
Starring	Machiko Kyō Tatsuya Nakadai Ganjirō Nakamura Jun Hamamura
Music by	Yasushi Akutagawa
Cinematography	Kazuo Miyagawa
Edited by	Hiroaki Fujii
Distributed by	Daiei Film
Release dates	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.

Plot

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

Cast

Machiko Kyō as Ikuko Kenmochi
Ganjirō Nakamura as Kenji Kenmochi
Junko Kano as Toshiko Kenmochi
Tatsuya Nakadai as Kimura
Jun Hamamura as Dr. Sōma
Tanie Kitabayashi as Hana
Mayumi Kurata 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.

External links

Odd Obsession at the Internet Movie Database
Odd Obsession at AllMovie

Films directed by Kon Ichikawa

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho (1947)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Hole (1957)
Enjō (1958)
Odd Obsession (1959)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Jokyo (1960)
Her Brother (1960)
Ten Dark Women (1961)
Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Alone Across the Pacific (1963)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967)
To Love Again (1971)
Visions of Eight (1973)
The Inugamis (1976)
Koto (1980)
Kofuku (1981)
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
Ohan (1984)
The Burmese Harp (1985)
Princess from the Moon (1987)
47 Ronin (1994)
Dora-heita (2001)
The Inugamis (2006)

Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize

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 (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Stars (1959)
L'Avventura (1960)
Odd Obsession (1960)
Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
L'Eclisse (1962)
Harakiri (1963)
The Cassandra Cat (1963)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Kwaidan (1965)
Alfie (1966)
Z (1969)
The Falcons (1970)
The Strawberry Statement (1970)
Love (1971)
Joe Hill (1971)
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
The Invitation (1973)
The Constant Factor (1980)
Kharij (1983)
Colonel Redl (1985)
Thérèse (1986)
Yeelen (1987)
Shinran: Path to Purity (1987)
A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Europa (1991)
Out of Life (1991)
Dream of Light (1992)
An Independent Life (1992)
The Puppetmaster (1993)
Raining Stones (1993)
La Reine Margot (1994)
Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1995)
Carrington (1995)
Crash (1996)
Western (1997)
Class Trip (1998)
Festen (1998)
The Letter (1999)
Blackboards (2000)
Songs from the Second Floor (2001)
Divine Intervention (2002)
At Five in the Afternoon (2003)
Tropical Malady (2004)
Shanghai Dreams (2005)
Red Road (2006)
Persepolis (2007)
Silent Light (2007)
Il Divo (2008)
Thirst (2009)
Fish Tank (2009)
A Screaming Man (2010)
Polisse (2011)
The Angels' Share (2012)
Like Father, Like Son (2013)
Mommy (2014)
Goodbye to Language (2014)
The Lobster (2015)
American Honey (2016)

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Odd Obsession

Plot

Cast

See also

References

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