Publisher's Synopsis
"Diary of a Mad Old Man" is the most mature masterpiece of the Japanese delinquent master Junichiro Tanizaki in his later years, and is also the highest classic of Japanese foot fetish aesthetics. In his twilight years, the old man's perspective, through the diary depicts his crazy obsession with the beautiful evil daughter-in-law, the absurd and pure desire, the painful and tortured excitement and pleasure, which makes him several times in the death and happiness wandering back and forth between the death of the dead haggard in his twilight years once again full of joy.
