Zigeunerweisen (film)

Zigeunerweisen
Directed by	Seijun Suzuki
Written by	Yōzō Tanaka Hyakken Uchida (novel)
Produced by	Genjiro Arato
Starring	Yoshio Harada Naoko Otani Toshiya Fujita
Cinematography	Kazue Nagatsuka
Edited by	Nobutake Kamiya
Music by	Kaname Kawachi
Distributed by	Cinema Placet
Release date	April 1, 1980 (1980-04-01)
Running time	145 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Zigeunerweisen (Japanese: ツィゴイネルワイゼン, Hepburn: Tsigoineruwaizen, from the German "Gypsy Airs") is a 1980 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on Hyakken Uchida's novel, Disk of Sarasate. It takes its title from a gramophone recording of Pablo de Sarasate's violin composition, Zigeunerweisen, which features prominently in the story. The film makes the first part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, followed by Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato.

When exhibitors declined to screen the film, Arato screened it himself in an inflatable, mobile tent to great success. It won Honourable Mention at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival, was nominated for nine Japanese Academy Awards and won four, including best director and best film, and was voted the number one Japanese film of the 1980s by Japanese critics.