- Country: Japan
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1968-10-30
- Director: Yasuzō Masumura
- Writers: Ichirô Ikeda , Yasuzō Masumura , Ayako Miura
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Ayako Wakao , Ken Ogata , Kayo Matsuo , Eiko Azusa , Yôko Namikawa , Yoshirō Uchida , Michiko Araki , Asao Uchida
- Runtime: 84 min
- Awards: 1 win
- AKA: A Building Blocks' Box , Tsumiki no hako , To xylino spiti (Greece) , 積木の箱 (Japan) , The House of Wooden Blocks
- Plot: Masumura's 40th film, for which he collaborated on the script, shows plot irrationality perhaps due to the newspaper serial original, perhaps to the adolescent behavior he portrays. The extremes of self-sacrifice in some of the characters such as Hisayo and Sugiura contrast too sharply with the animal brutality of Sasabayashi and Namie, and the result is more caricature than realism. The harsh selfishness of Ichiro¯ and the abrupt techniques used to present his interior thoughts (double exposure of a naked Yuri as he undresses her with his eyes) prevent him in the end from winning audience sympathy. Part of a late sixties trend toward adolescent sexuality subject matter.
- IMDB:tt0220820
The House of Wooden Blocks Cast · · · ALL
Yasuzō Masumura
Director
Ayako Wakao
Ken Ogata
Kayo Matsuo
Yôko Namikawa
Yoshirō Uchida
Hiroshi Shimada
Michiko Araki
Asao Uchida