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    Empire of Passion (1978) [The Criterion Collection] [ReUp]

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    Date: 6 Oct 2015 09:32:00
    Empire of Passion (1978) [The Criterion Collection] [ReUp]

    Empire of Passion (1978) + [Extras]
    DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 432 | XviD @ 1599 Kbps | 105 min + 35 min | 1,39 Gb + 453 Mb
    Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English (srt)
    Genre: Art-house, Drama

    With an arresting mix of eroticism and horror, Oshima plunges the viewer into a nightmarish tale of guilt and retribution in Empire of Passion (Ai no borei). Set in a Japanese village at the end of the nineteenth century, the film details the emotional and physical downfall of a married woman and her younger lover following their decision to murder her husband and dump his body in a well. Empire of Passion was Oshima’s only true kaidan (Japanese ghost story), and the film, a savage, unrelenting experience, earned him the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival.

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    Eros and Thanatos, Love and Death command the dialectics of Life. By the end of 19th century in a remote Japanese village a young man and a married woman, older than he, fall in love with each other and decide to kill her husband to be free to enjoy their love. But they never enjoy that freedom since Remorse begins to haunt them beginning as usual at the time by the weakest member of the couple, the woman of course. Henceforth in an atmosphere where dream (nightmare) mixes up with reality the ghost of the murdered husband appears first to the woman but then also to the man. It also haunts the dreams of the other villagers creating a climate of suspicion and gossip around the couple which is aggravated by the arrival of a police officer that comes to investigate the disappearance of the murdered husband. But which makes this movie more interesting besides this almost common story of adultery is the evolution of the couple's feelings in a Shakespearean deep psychological and dramatic development of remorse, anguish and fear which turns their love relationship into a nightmare until their final doom. The expressionism so dear to Japanese theatre or movie acting is also present in the players' performances but not in an exaggerated form. Just only in the necessary measure to show more effectively the most deep feelings of the depicted characters. This is indeed a solid good movie.
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    Empire of Passion (1978) [The Criterion Collection] [ReUp]
    Empire of Passion (1978) [The Criterion Collection] [ReUp]

    Extras included (with English subs):
    - Double Obsession: Seki, Sada, and Oshima, a new video essay by film historian and critic Catherine Russel (20:17)
    - An interview program from 2003 featuring production consultant Koji Wakamatsu and assistant directors Yusuke Narita and Yoichi Sai (13:17)
    - Original US Theatrical Trailer (01:52)

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