Odd Obsession

“See it from the beginning - it will thrill you all the more!”

In a Japanese household in 1959, the Kenmochi marriage has gone quiet in the bedroom. Kenji (Ganjirō Nakamura II) finds his younger wife Ikuko (Machiko Kyō) so intimidating that he cannot be aroused. His answer is to bring his daughter's lover Kimura (Tatsuya Nakadai) into the house, and Kon Ichikawa plays the arrangement as dry comedy, letting the camera linger on rooms where everyone is watching someone else.