In the realm of passion
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | In the realm of passion |
| Original title | Ai no borei |
| Country of production | Japan , France |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ōshima Nagisa |
| script | Ōshima Nagisa |
| production | Anatole Dauman |
| music | Tōru Takemitsu |
| camera | Yoshio Miyajima |
| cut | Keiichi Uraoka |
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In the realm of passion ( Japanese 愛 の 亡 霊 Ai no bōrei , love of the dead) is a Japanese - French horror film from 1978 . Directed by Ōshima Nagisa , who also wrote the screenplay based on a novel by Itoko Namura .
action
The action takes place in a Japanese village at the end of the 19th century. The attractive Seki is married to the much older rickshaw driver Gisaburo. One day she meets the former soldier Toyoji, with whom she has an affair. Seki and Toyoji decide together to kill Gisaburo; his body is hidden in a well. Seki claims her husband moved to Tokyo to look for work.
Seki and Toyoji are haunted by the man's ghost three years later. Local residents become suspicious, and the authorities are investigating the disappearance of Gisaburo.
Reviews
Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times on December 16, 1980 that the film was more sensitive and romantic than In the Realm of the Senses . Not only would sex become an obsession, but love too. The protagonists would not become victims of society, but of their own feelings. The film is "extraordinarily beautiful" and "exquisitely played"; the pictures are impressive. Everything is "precisely ordered".
Cinema magazine wrote that the “erotic psychodrama” was a “dark classic, sensual to supersensible”.
The lexicon of international films writes: "The Japanese film Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses", 1976) is a never-ending story of passion and murder of the traditional school. Unusually beautifully photographed, it remains on the surface of the drama, so that a slightly speculative move to the fore. "
Awards
Ōshima Nagisa was nominated for the Palme d'Or in 1978 and received a prize for directing at the Cannes International Film Festival . Tōru Takemitsu won the Mainichi Film Award and the Award of the Japanese Academy in 1979 for film music . The seven other nominations for the Award of the Japanese Academy included those for Best Picture , for Director and for Kazuko Yoshiyuki.
backgrounds
The film was shot in Japan . It was released in French cinemas on September 6, 1978.
Ōshima Nagisa created the film In the Realm of the Senses in 1976 , to which this film has been compared in some reviews.
Web links
- Empire of Passion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Empire of Passion at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vincent Canby's film review , accessed June 11, 2008.
- ↑ Cinema , accessed June 11, 2008.
- ↑ In the realm of passion. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 10, 2018 .
- ^ Filming locations for Ai no borei , accessed June 11, 2008.
- ↑ Release dates for Ai no borei , accessed June 11, 2008.