Irezumi : Spirit of Tattoo - 1982 - NTSC - REMASTERED - Yoichi Takabayashi

This strikingly visual film is about the Akane (Utsonomiya), who has her back tattooed to please her husband. Her greatest fear is that she will lose him.

So for two years she commutes from Tokyo to Kyoto, where Kyogoro (Wakayama), a renowned tattoo artist who has come out of retirement for Akane, devotes the remainder of his life to completing this final tattoo.

IREZUMI explores the yin-yang principle of complete existence emerging from two opposites. Director Takabayashi, whose first film, GAKI ZOSHI (The Water Was So Clear) also dealt with spirituality and eroticism, directs with a delicate sense of beauty, his visuals carefully capturing the movements and colors of the tattoo master at work and the living piece of art that Akane becomes.

ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (REMASTERED)
THE FULL UNCUT INTERNATIONAL VERSION
JAPANESE AUDIO / ENGLISH SUBTITLES