Empire of passion

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The Resource Empire of passion

Statement of responsibility: Janus Films ; Argos Films ; Anatole Dauman présente ; un film de Nagisa Oshima ; scénario et dialogues de Nagisa Oshima ; directeur de la production, Shigeru Wakatsuki, avec le concours de Koji Wakamatsu ; une coproduction Franco-Japonaise Argos Films (Paris), Oshima Productions (Tokyo)

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Summary: 1895, a small Japanese village. Part-time barmaid Seki is married to Gisaburo, a hardworking rickshaw man. Toyoji is a younger man at loose ends since leaving the army. Toyoji seduces Seki, and they embark on a desultory affair. Later, an impetuous action of Toyoji's prompts the lovers to murder Gisaburo. Three years later, Gisaburo's ghost appears, a sad and confused lost soul whose vague desperation drives his murderers to anguished guilt. This film was director Oshima's venture into the kaidan (Japanese ghost story), and was highly acclaimed on its release in 1978

Awards note: Winner, Prix de la Mise en Scène [Best Director: Nagisa Oshima], XXXIème Festival de Cannes, [1978]; Award of the Japanese Academy: Best Music Score: Tôru Takemitsu, 1979.

Credits note: Image [photography], Yoshio Miyajima ; montage [editor], Keiichi Uraoka ; décors [art direction], Jūshō Toda ; musique originale, Tōru Takemitsu

Language note: In Japanese or dubbed English with optional subtitles in English

PerformerNote: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tamura Takahiro, Takuzo Kawatani, Akiko Koyama, Taiji Tonoyama, Sumié Sasaki, Eizo Kitamura, Masami Hasegawa, Kenzo Kawarazaki

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