She forgot everything except how to wreck a samurai's entire life.
Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.
Direction
Ichikawa's surgical precision—every glance is a trap being set.
Acting
Yuko Asano's amnesia performance: is she innocent or the greatest actress alive?
Cinematography
Lush Edo-period interiors that suffocate rather than comfort.
Director
Kon Ichikawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kon Ichikawa directed this at age 80, still obsessed with masks and social theater—Fusa is essentially a feature-length expansion of his 1963 The Actors' Revenge themes.
The TV movie format actually serves Ichikawa's chamber drama instincts; the small screen intimacy makes Fusa's lies feel domestic and inescapable rather than cinematic and distant.
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