by Iotis Erlewine
synopsis
This drama is based on Kawabata's Nobel Prize-winning autobiographical novel about the two loves of his father and about the anger he feels toward them. As a boy he meets the first lover with whom his father had a brief affair. Later, the philanderer gets involved with a widow.
characteristics
- Son
- Meeting
- Love
- Jealousy
- Suicidal
- Suicide
- Widower
- Tragic-love
- Tea-ceremony
- Infidelity
- Flashback
- Covetous
- Ceremony
- Bitterness
- Adultery
