After over a decade in the wilderness following his firing from Nikkatsu for cult classic BRANDED TO KILL, maverick director Seijun Suzuki returned with a vengeance with his critically-praised tryptic of supernatural dramas set during the liberal enlightenment of Japan's Taisho Era (1912-26). In the multiple Japanese Academy Award-winning ZIGEUNERWEISEN, two intellectuals and former colleagues from military academy involve their wives in a series of dangerous sexual games.