In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
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Takahiro Tamura
Gisaburo
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Seki
Tatsuya Fuji
Toyoji
Takuzō Kawatani
Inspector Hotta
Akiko Koyama
Young Master's Mother
Taiji Tonoyama
Toichiro
Kenzō Kawarasaki
Young Master
Sumie Sasaki
Odame
Eizō Kitamura
Takaaki Sugiura
Director
Nagisa Ōshima
Screenplay
Itoko Nakamura
Tagline
"The haunting of a passionate love."
Status
Released
Original Language
JA
Production
TOHO-TOWA, Argos films, Oshima Productions
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January 15, 2016
I am a great fan of Ôshima's work, though unfortunately I have only seen previously six films of his, all between 1965's 'Pleasures of the Flesh' and 1976's extremely controversial 'In the Realm of the Senses'. This, like the latter, was a period piece that looked at a doomed relationship (this time in 1895), though far less scandalous in its sexuality, though still titillating nevertheless. Exile...
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