Wuthering Heights (1988)

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Country: Japan
Genres: Drama
Release: 1988-05-28
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Writers: Emily Brontë , Yoshishige Yoshida
Language: Japanese
Stars: Yūsaku Matsuda , Yūko Tanaka , Tatsuo Nadaka , Eri Ishida , Nagare Hagiwara , Keiko Itô , Tomoko Takabe , Masato Furuoya , Rentaro Mikuni , Masao Imafuku
Runtime: 143 min
Awards: 2 wins & 2 nominations
AKA: Arashi ga oka , Грозовой перевал (Russian Federation) , Wuthering Heights (United States of America) , Arashi Ga Oka (South Africa) , Onimaru (France, French Republic) , Wuthering Heights (India) , Les Hauts de Hurlevent (France, French Republic) , 嵐が丘（1988） (Japan) , Arashi ga oka (Germany) , Wuthering Heights , Onimaru (Japan) , Wuthering Heights (United Kingdom)
Plot: A fearful stranger, Onimaru, tries to intrude into the central community with a tabooed and profane woman, Kinu. Influenced by George Bataille's argument that the sacred and the profane are ultimately never in contradiction, Yoshida allows Kinu and Onimaru to consummate and sublimate their union through their marginality and profaneness. At the end of the film, they are expelled by the legitimate second generation and annihilate themselves. The social harmony, that the intruder disturbed, is restored. However, in spite of this seemingly clear ending, doubts remain over the legitimacy of the second Catherine, with the suspicion that she might be the daughter of Onimaru.
IMDB:tt0095786