相隔十年,鈴木清順終於完成「大正浪漫三部曲」最後一篇。主角藍本是以美人畫聞名的日本畫家竹久夢二。故事講述竹久夢二赴約相會情人彥乃,卻戀上殺夫的寡婦巴代。她死去的丈夫又在一個充滿氣球的晚會中出現。主角被死亡的想像和藝術創作的追求纏繞,墮入現實、夢境和幻想的漩渦中。虛幻的情節,絢麗的畫面,淒美的角色,延續鈴木清順追求的電影美學風格。日本殿堂級創作歌手演員澤田研二,在演藝界中作風前衛創新,與竹久夢二隔代而合,由他飾演夢二是神來之筆。

Ten years after Heat-Haze Theatre, Suzuki Seijun wrapped up his Taisho Trilogy with this sensual tale about a real-life Taisho-era painter and poet. Suzuki spins a fictionalised, fantastic portrait of Yumeji Takehisa, using surreal imagery, luscious camerawork, and an ambiguous narrative to convey the anguished soul of an artist. En route to a meeting with his lover, Yumeji becomes enchanted by a beautiful woman whose husband was mysteriously murdered. Yumeji’s enchantment grows into obsession, while the complications with the women in his life multiply, bleeding into his already tortured artistic process. When the murdered husband abruptly returns to face Yumeji, dreams and death collide, pushing him further towards entropy.