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Pleasures Of The Flesh [DVD]

Nagisa Oshima    Suitable for 18 years and over   DVD
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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  • Directors: Nagisa Oshima
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Yume Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 8 Sep 2008
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0019GJ4N8
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 75,841 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Oshima's spin on the notorious 'pink' film is a brazen and vivid thriller that takes a Hitchcockian premise (a murderer is blackmailed by a thief) and turns it into a exploration and allegory of post-war materialism, greed and sexual exploitation. Having murdered a man who raped one of his students, teacher Wakizaka finds himself blackmailed into hiding a huge some of money. Increasing unstable and deteriorating further into a spiral of guilt and obsession, Wakizaka succumbs to his baser impulses and decides to spend the cash on indulging his every impulse and sensual urge - and face the consequences later ... Pleasures of the Flesh sees Oshima first embrace the themes and visual motifs of pornography, sadism and obsession that characterise his later works.

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Production Notes, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Director Nagisa Oshima's film uses the "pink" genre to mask an allegory about the materialism of post-war Japan (the original title translates as "Indulgence"). Katsuo Nakamura stars as a man blackmailed by a thief, who makes him hold on to some stolen loot while the thief serves a jail sentence. Nakamura is led into temptation by all that money sitting around, so he decides to spend it on wild partying and sex before killing himself to avoid retribution. Like the films of Paul Morrissey, Etsuraku simultaneously exploits its subject matter and condemns it, to peculiar effect. ...The Pleasures of the Flesh ( Etsuraku )

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars crap dvd 24 Sep 2011
Format:DVD
the image quality of the dvd is very weak. the transfer is not even anamorphic, very sloppy and unprofessional. i would certainly not have bought the dvd if i knew the quality was so dissapointing
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5.0 out of 5 stars Time is Waiting in the Wings 20 Feb 2013
By Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
Part of Oshima's outlaw series. A film about love, infatuation, dreams and murder. The plot revolves around a man's love for a woman and how he copes with rejection, and the legacy of the efforts he made to woo her.

Whilst it may have the plot of a romcom this is anything but...

Quickly after the credits this hits the high road to hell, with a descent quicker than jumping off a ten storey building, our hero makes a pact with Faust that establishes the central core of the film, but then it takes a twist here and a twist there to head into the voids of nihilism.

Combining 60's camera chic, beautiful groovy Japanese women our hero tries to buy his fun and meets a series of traumatised beauties as he embarks upon his quest. All the women are dominated by men wanting to enter them and control their lives.

Seedy Japan oozes through the frame along with ecstasy and dread. A beautiful haunting film well worth the effort to dig.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Solid 1 Feb 2013
By Cosmoetica - Published on Amazon.com
There are too many flaws, and Dumbest Possible Action tropes, for Pleasures Of The Flesh to broach greatness, but there are superb moments right next to bad. As example, while the forthrightness of the admission by Hayami is not believable, character-wise, it is one of the bleakest and most searing indictments of the human character ever put on film; and part of that burn comes from the fact that its ascription of human flaws is dead on. And in this it has a far more realistic take on human evil than Crime And Punishment. While a good portion of the film has dated, in terms of conventions of dress and sexual mores, at the gut, human level, the film is till searingly accurate, much like the best episodes of The Twilight Zone. That, plus its many positive qualities, makes this an important film, if not a great one. And that's more than enough to recommend its being watched and, hopefully, understood.
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