Tomu Uchida – Koiya koi nasuna koi AKA The Mad Fox [+ commentary] (1962)

Colourful, wildly stylised, immense captivating fable, including animation, kabuki and butoh and collapsing sets. About a soothsayer at court who was driven to insanity by the murder of his lover and will marry her likeness. And indeed, she’s a fox in human form!

MoMA wrote:
Uchida’s strangest and most stylized film is a visual feast, adapted by Yoshikata Yoda from a traditional puppet play. Dispensing with naturalism, Uchida uses expressionist sets and color schemes to convey the shifting states of mind of a protagonist driven mad by grief after his lover is killed. Some scenes are shot against theatrical backdrops inspired by kabuki theater and traditional dance; others unfold on elaborately colored sets reminiscent of traditional screen paintings. The Mad Fox’s audacious artifice makes Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (1964) pale in comparison.

2.27GB | 1h 48m | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0B7F76EF7B03A1F/Koiya.koi.nasuna.koi.AKA.The.Mad.Fox.1962.576p.Bluray.AAC.1.0.x264-SaL.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/114e04f003dbb/Koiya.koi.nasuna.koi.AKA.The.Mad.Fox.1962.576p.Bluray.AAC.1.0.x264-SaL.mp4

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English