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- Who directed In the Realm of the Senses / Empire of Passion?
- Nagisa Ôshima
- Who is Kichizo Ishida in In the Realm of the Senses / Empire of Passion?
- Tatsuya Fuji plays Kichizo Ishida in the film.
- What is In the Realm of the Senses / Empire of Passion about?
- IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (AI NO CORRIDA), 1976, Janus Films, 105 min. "Perhaps Oshima's greatest" -- Donald Richie. Banned upon release - it caused riots at Cannes - Nagisa Oshima's tale of sexual obsession links subjugation - between man and woman, master and servant, individual and state. Based on an incident that took place in 1936, in which a hotel maid murdered and castrated her employer after several days of love-making. With Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda. In Japanese with English subtitles.
EMPIRE OF PASSION (AI NO BOREI), 1978, Janus Films, 104 min. EMPIRE won Nagisa Oshima the Cannes Best Director prize. In a late 19th-century-village, an ex-soldier romances an older woman who is married to a boozing rickshaw man. In the tradition of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, the lovers' crime of passion is punished by the couple's guilt, then by society. In Japanese with English subtitles. Due to explicit sexual imagery, no one under 18 will be admitted.
