Quicksand

Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young.

But her story is unsettlingly at odds with her image.

It is a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil.

Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered husband.

At is centre - seductive, manipulating, enslaving - is one of Tanizaki's most extraordinary characters, the beautiful and corrupt art student, Mitsuko.