King Ping Meh - Chinese love dance
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | King Ping Meh - Chinese love dance |
| Original title | Kinpeibai |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kōji Wakamatsu |
| script | Atsushi Yamatoya |
| production |
Kiyoshi Ogasawara Hideo Tomohisa |
| music | Masao Yagi |
| camera | Hideo Ito |
| cut | Tadashi Tsuji |
| occupation | |
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King Ping Meh - Chinese love dance (original title: 金瓶梅 , Kinpeibai , German: "Plum blossom in the golden vase") is a Japanese feature film by Kōji Wakamatsu from 1968. The screenplay was written by Atsushi Yamatoya . It is based on some motifs from the Chinese moral novel Jin Ping Mei (outdated: King Ping Meh ) from the 16th century, whereby the film reduces the 100-chapter story to a few basic lines. The main roles are occupied by Tomoko Mayama , Fumiaki Takashima and Jūzō Itami . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film first came to the cinema on June 27, 1969.
action
Gold lotus poisons her husband so that she can better join the concubines of the wealthy lecher Hsi-Men. Her brother-in-law Wu-Sung loves her too, but he has successfully tamed his passion. In return, he then becomes a rebel against tyranny, because he does not legally succeed in avenging his brother's death, and instead he is tortured himself. In the Hsi-Men house, too, not everything goes smoothly: there are quarrels, jealousy, rape of domestics and slacking passions. Towards the end of the film, Gold Lotus poisons Hsi-Men and Wu-Sung pierces her chest. This is followed by a passionate kiss of death. Then the robbers ride across a field of mounds of earth from which corpses' hands protrude into the sky.
criticism
The lexicon of international films judges: Based on motifs from the Chinese novel of the same name […], the Japanese sex film routineer Wakamatsu creates a stylish, but also speculative painting of the times and morals with socially critical accents in the drastic expansion of erotic acts of strength.
The Protestant Film Observer summarizes his criticism as follows: Very bloody history ham from ancient China about a lecher, several women and a rebel. Naive with a bit of social criticism and strange-looking sexual scenes filmed based on motifs from the four hundred year old novel. Maybe something for lovers and collectors of Far Eastern film oddities.
Web links
- Kin Ping Meh - Chinese love dance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 若 松 孝 二 フ ィ ル モ グ ラ フ ィ ー (Wakamatsu Kōji Filmography). In: Koji Wakamatsu Official website. Retrieved December 2, 2014 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 281/1969, p. 283
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2014