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Arashi ga oka - Among Japanese filmmaker Yoshishige Yoshida's darkest films is this brooding and tempestuous adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic novel. Inspired by traditional Japanese ghost tales, Yoshida interprets Wuthering Heights in a medieval Japanese folklore context and Brontë's classic tale of ill-fated love becomes a fable about the dangers of an unnatural obsession with the past.

Onimaru is an orphan boy taken in by a group of priests who worship the Mountain of Fire and try to appease the gods of anger. He’s in love with Kinu, the beautiful daughter of a local family. When she marries an heir to a rival family, his heart is broken. When she dies in childbirth, Onimaru loses what is left of his mind.

A lush and darkly sumptuous film and Yoshida's only jidaigeki, or period film, Wuthering Heights was also to be one of the last great roles of legendary actor Yusaku Matsuda, who died the year after the film's release.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida

Stars: Yusaku Matsuda, Yuko Tanaka and Rentaro Mikuni

1988 – JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES – COLOR – 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 143 MINUTES