妖僧的详情
本片是一部日本剧情片，由衣笠貞之助导演，由市川雷藏/藤由纪子/若山富三郎主演。
剧情简介：Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926).
Yoso means "esoteric priest" which implies "sorcerer." For such a rarely screened film, it seems to have attracted an unwieldy number of English titles: The Sorcerer, Ghostly Priest, Bronze Magician, Phantom Priest, & on the subtitled 35 mm print the only fully apropos title, Priest & Empress, not to be confused with another Raizo Ichikawa film called The Priest & the Beauty (Anchin to Kyohima, 1960).
Japan of the Nara Era had a sovereign female emperor or Mikado, Koken-Shotoku Tenno, who fell under the sway of a Buddhist priest named Dokyo. His influence over her proved so untoward that Empress Koken-Shotoku gave him titles which implied the imperial line might actually pass to him should the Empress die, despite that the imperial line had been preserved as a single dynasty back into prehistory.
The crisis engendered by Dokyo led to the banning of women ever again becoming Mikado, a decision periodically revisited including in our own generation when there stood a strong threat of no authentic male heir.
The film takes this historical reality & makes of it a believable though tough & very odd love story. Dokyo, who has indeed been called "the Japanese Rasputin," is here played by Raizo Ichikawa. Though Dokyo clearly uses the affections of the Empress (played by the ethereally beautiful Yukiko Fuji) for personal gain & power, his intense devotion to Shotoku is nevertheless no falsehood. When it comes time for his assassination, it is very much Rasputin-like, as he is damnably difficult to kill. It's portrayed quite horrifically but it remains simultaneously sorrowful because his love of Shotoku was no pose.
外文名：Yoso
别名：Bronze Magician / Yoso
类型：剧情 / 爱情 / 奇幻
地区：日本
导演：衣笠貞之助
编剧：衣笠貞之助
演员：市川雷藏 / 藤由纪子 / 若山富三郎 / 片岡彦三郎 / 小泽荣太郎 / 万里昌代 / 近藤美恵子 / 小林胜彦 / 成田纯一郎 / 丹羽又三郎 / 岛田龙三 / 稻叶义男 / 石黑达也 / 春本富士夫 / 花布辰男 / 丸山修 / 山路義人 / 荒木忍 / 中条静夫 / 浜田雄史 / 南条新太郎 / 杉山昌三九 / 南部彰三 / 近江辉子 / 橘公子 / 小松美登里 / 市川謹也 / 玉置一惠 / 原圣四郎 / 冲时男 / 春日清 / 桜井勇 / 藤川准 / 堀北幸夫 / 岩田正 / 菊野昌代志 / 越川一 / 福井隆次 / 大杉潤 / 中西五郎 / 滝川絜 / 木村元 / 千石泰三 / 細谷新吾 / 伏見博史
