Odd Obsession

Odd Obsession
Directed by	Kon Ichikawa
Produced by	Hiroaki Fujii Masaichi Nagata
Written by	Keiji Hasebe Kon Ichikawa Junichirô Tanizaki Natto Wada
Starring	Machiko Kyô Tatsuya Nakadai Ganjiro Nakamura
Cinematography	Kazuo Miyagawa
Editing by	Hiroaki Fujii
Release date(s)	23 June, 1959 (Japan)
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 Junichiro 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 Kyô - Ikuko Kenmochi
• Ganjiro Nakamura - Kenji Kenmochi
• Junko Kano - Toshiko Kenmochi
• Tatsuya Nakadai - Kimura
• Jun Hamamura - Dr. Soma
• Tanie Kitabayashi - Hana
• Mayumi Kurata - Koike
• Kyu Sazanka - Curio dealer
• Ichirô Sugai - Masseur
• Mantarô Ushio - Dr. Kodama

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Odd Obsession". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3322/year/1960.html. Retrieved 2009-02-16. 

External links

• Odd Obsession at the Internet Movie Database

Awards
Preceded by No award	Jury Prize, Cannes 1960 tied with L'avventura	Succeeded by No award (1961 - 1967) Z (1968)