This Transient Life

This Transient Life
This Transient Life
	Film poster
Directed by	Akio Jissoji
Written by	Toshirô Ishidô
Produced by	Toyoaki Dan; Kinshirô Kuzui;
Starring	Ryō Tamura; Michiko Tsukasa;
Cinematography	Yuzo Inagaki; Masao Nakabori; Kazumi Oneda;
Edited by	Yoshihiro Yanagawa
Music by	Toru Fuyuki
Production; companies	Art Theatre Guild; Jissoji Productions;
Distributed by	Art Theatre Guild
Release date	8 August 1970;
Running time	143 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

This Transient Life (無常, Mujō) is a 1970 Japanese erotic drama film directed by Akio Jissoji, in his feature directorial debut.^[1]^[2] It is the first film in Jissoji's Buddhist Trilogy. Starring Ryō Tamura and Michiko Tsukasa, it follows a young man who falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk from a nearby Buddhist Monastery finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.^[3]^[4]

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Ryō Tamura as Masao (brother)
Michiko Tsukasa as Yuri (sister)
Kozo Yamamura as father
Kin Sugai as mother
Kotobuki Hananomoto as Iwashita (the servant)
Akiji Kobayashi
Eiji Okada as Mori (the sculptor)
Mitsuko Tanaka as Mori's second wife
Isao Sasaki as Mori's Son
Minori Terada
Haruhiko Okamura as Ogino (Buddhist priest)

[1]
"無常". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
[2]
無常 (1970). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
[3]
"無常とは". kotobank. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
[4]
"Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2012.

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[1] [1]
"無常". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

[2] [2]
無常 (1970). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 25 September 2014.

[3] [3]
"無常とは". kotobank. Retrieved 22 January 2019.

[Locarno-4] [4]
"Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2012.

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