1986 · drama · biography · literary
House on Fire
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku2h 13m1986
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
Our read: House on Fire (1986) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · biography · literary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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