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.

当一位年轻僧人接触到“博阿健身房”的健美运动员时，他重新连接到了自己身体的力量，引发了一场彻底的转变。

领主的女儿进入到修道院里进行修行，可是在修道院里卷进了欲望的漩涡，和放浪的贵族合谋害死了老院长，终于被其他的僧尼所揭发……

领主的女儿进入到修道院里进行修行，可是在修道院里卷进了欲望的漩涡，和放浪的贵族合谋害死了老院长，终于被其他的僧尼所揭发……

该片以北京胡同为社会背景，展现了从上世纪六十到八十年代，中国社会的动荡、变迁给小人物带来的影响。

该片以北京胡同为社会背景，展现了从上世纪六十到八十年代，中国社会的动荡、变迁给小人物带来的影响。

世代居住的赫顿公寓住着托尼和爱妻布伦达以及6岁的儿子约翰·安德鲁，本来也是安逸舒适。不料，浪荡公子约翰·比弗尔来访，布伦达与之一见钟情。之后，布伦达以到伦敦学习经济为借口，避开丈夫，经常与比弗尔幽会。他们的关系人人皆知，只有托尼蒙在鼓里。安德鲁不幸从马上摔下而亡，布伦达误认为死去的“约翰”是她的情人约翰·比弗尔。布伦达把自己与比弗尔的关系告诉了丈夫，并提出离婚。托尼经历丧子失妻的痛苦，参加一个探险队去了南美，途中不幸病倒，几乎死去。一个英国老人搭救了他，托尼以后便隐姓埋名，与老人一起留在南美的丛林里。

世代居住的赫顿公寓住着托尼和爱妻布伦达以及6岁的儿子约翰·安德鲁，本来也是安逸舒适。不料，浪荡公子约翰·比弗尔来访，布伦达与之一见钟情。之后，布伦达以到伦敦学习经济为借口，避开丈夫，经常与比弗尔幽会。他们的关系人人皆知，只有托尼蒙在鼓里。安德鲁不幸从马上摔下而亡，布伦达误认为死去的“约翰”是她的情人约翰·比弗尔。布伦达把自己与比弗尔的关系告诉了丈夫，并提出离婚。托尼经历丧子失妻的痛苦，参加一个探险队去了南美，途中不幸病倒，几乎死去。一个英国老人搭救了他，托尼以后便隐姓埋名，与老人一起留在南美的丛林里。