Odd Obsession

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Odd Obsession ★★½ The Key 1960

One of Ichikawa's first films, about an elderly Japanese gentleman with a young wife whose feelings of jealousy and impotence eventually wreak havoc on the marriage. In Japanese with English subtitles. 96m/C VHS . JP Machiko Kyo, Ganjiro Nakamura; D: Kon Ichikawa. Golden Globes ‘60: Foreign Film.