Cast:
Kenji Sugawara, Fujiko Yamamoto, Hitomi Nozoe
A truly jaw-dropping film set in the Japanese Alps, which comes across as a strange hybrid of German Mountain Movies crossed with the delirious melodrama of Douglas Sirk. With its high camp and luscious production design, The Precipice concerns two mountaineers in love with the same woman (Yamamoto Fujiko – an icon of ’50s Japanese cinema). When one of the men plunges to his death, suspicion falls on the survivor.