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L'Empire de la passion = Empire of passion / Janus Films ; Argos Films ; Anatole Dauman présente ; une coproduction franco-japonaise, Argos Films (Paris) - Oshima Productions (Tokyo) ; un film de Nagisa Oshima ; scénario et dialogues de Nagisa Oshima.
LIBRA DVD 003 399 DVD + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 467.
- The criterion collection ; 467
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Nakamura, Itoko--Film adaptations.
- Nakamura, Itoko.
- Married women--Japan--Drama.
- Married women.
- Adultery--Japan--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Murder--Japan--Drama.
- Murder.
- Strangling--Japan--Drama.
- Strangling.
- Ghosts--Japan--Drama.
- Ghosts.
- Murder--Investigation--Japan--Drama.
- Murder--Investigation.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Horror films.
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Enhanced for widescreen TVs.
- Other Title:
- Empire of passion
- Released in Japan under title: Ai no borei
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009]
- Language Note:
- In Japanese or dubbed English; optional English subtitles; opening credits in French.
- Open-captioned for the hearing impaired (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- 1895, Japan. In a small village, Seki is the wife of the litter carrier Gisaburo. Seki has an affair with Toyiji, a man twenty-six years younger her. Toyiji becomes jealous of Gisaburo and plots with Seki to kill him. After Gisaburo has had plenty of sake to drink and goes to bed, the two strangle Gisaburo and dump his body inside a well in the woods. Seki tells the locals that Gisaburo moved to Tokyo to work. Finally, three years later, suspicions become very strong and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, Gisaburo's ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrives to investigate his disappearance.
- Participant:
- Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzo Kawatani, Masami Hasegawa, Kenzo Kawarazaki, Akiko Koyama, Taiji Tonoyama, Sumie Sasaki.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Yoshio Miyajima; editor, Keiichi Uraoka; original music,Toru Takemitsu.
- Notes:
- Based on Ai no borei / [by] Itoko Nakamura.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1978.
- "New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
- Special features: "Double obsession : Seki, Sada, and Oshima" (a video essay by film historian and critic Catherine Russell); new interviews with actors Kazuko Yoshiyuki and Tatsuya Fuji; an interview program from 2003 featuring production consultant Koji Wakamatsu and assistant directors Yusuke Narita and Yoichi Sai; original U.S. theatrical trailer.
- Aspect ratio 1.66:1.
- ISBN:
- 9781604651461
- 1604651466
- OCLC:
- 300092865
- Publisher Number:
- 715515045117
- CC1807D Criterion Collection
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