The joys of the flesh

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Movie
German title The joys of the flesh
Original title 悦 楽 etsuraku
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1965
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Nagisa Ōshima
script Nagisa Ōshima
production Masayuki Nakajima
music Jōji Yuasa
camera Akira Takada
occupation

The joys of the flesh ( Japanese original title 悦 楽 , etsuraku , eng . "Pleasure") is a Japanese film by Nagisa Ōshima from 1965 . Ōshima's script is based on a novel by Yamada Fūtarō .

action

After the office worker Atsushi Wakizaka has murdered the rapist of his former student and secret love Shoko, he receives a visit from the officer Hayami, who embezzled 30 million yen and wants to keep the money at Wakizaka until he has served his prison sentence, which lasted a few months . Since he has observed the murder and thus knows what Wakizaka did, he can use this knowledge to blackmail him into complying with his request.

However, when Shoko marries some time later, Wakizaka doesn't care and he begins to spend the money with full hands. As soon as Hayami is released, he wants to take his own life.

Production, publication

The film was produced by the Sozosha film production company. The soundtrack features the Etsuraku no Blues by Kazuhiko Shima with the text by Osamu Yoshioka. After a series of unsuccessful films, The Joys of the Flesh marked something like Ōshima's comeback in the feature film field.

The film was first seen in Japan on August 29, 1965. In December 1965 it was published in the United States under the title The Pleasures of the Flesh . France showed it under the title Les plaisirs de la chair in June 1986 and in a re-performance from August 8, 2007. It was also published in Italy under the title Il godimento , in Poland under the title Rozkosz and in Portugal under the title Os Prazeres da Carne . The Soviet Union showed it under the Russian title Удовольствия плоти .

criticism

The portal film.at writes: “Ōshima's perhaps most accessible, certainly catchy and enjoyable work, whose surprising success at the box office secured his career for a long time” and continues that it was “a satire about the economic miracle in Japan, gaudy, loud and popular, poisonous and gallic, sardonic, cheeky, sneaky and at times just plain crazy - maybe a bit like the early masterpieces of Masumura, only more creeping, vicious and decidedly ruthless ”.

Molodezhnaja described the film as “an appealingly solid work through and through”, the “most important attraction of which is the staging”, “which is characterized by an atmosphere that often seems surreal”. It went on: “Some critics drew the somewhat too generous comparison to 'Vertigo', but there is actually a bit of Hitchcock in the film. Always in combination with a typical implementation for Oshima. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pleasures of the Flesh adS molodezhnaja.ch (with pictures from the film). Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  2. ^ RH: The joys of the flesh adS film.at