Japan Synopsis
無常
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with This Transient Life. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Art Theatre Guild
The 1969–1971 Japan Window
This Transient Life holds position #12 of 64 Japan films in the 1969–1971 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1970s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1970s in Japan, 197 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when This Transient Life premiered alongside 17 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 17 other Japan films in 1970.
The 339th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
36 audience reviews — more than 56% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (56th percentile) outruns trending popularity (29th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on This Transient Life, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- voyeurism · 5
- sculptor · 2
- chisel · 2
- buddhism · 22
- incest · 17
- priest · 9
- suicide · 51
- sibling relationship · 38
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,431 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (69th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.5 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #624 of 1,933 (top 32%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Art Theatre Guild |
| Runtime | 2h 23m |
| Release Date | August 8, 1970 |
| IMDb | tt0128364 |