The Pleasures of the Flesh ( Etsuraku )

The Pleasures of the Flesh (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Etsuraku
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1965 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Nagisa Oshima

Written By:
Nagisa Oshima
Futaro Yamada

Actors:
Katsuo Nakamura ..... Wakizaka
Mariko Kaga ..... Shoko
Yumiko Nogawa ..... Hitomi
Masako Yagi ..... Shizuko
Toshiko Higuchi ..... Keiko
Hiroko Shimizu ..... Mari
Toru Emori
Akira Hamada
Mamoru Hirata
Akiji Kobayashi
Hosei Komatsu
Naramasa Komatsu
Daigo Kusano
Kei Sato
Rokko Toura
Fumio Watanabe

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.

A young man, disillusioned in love, spends the money he has been blackmailed into keeping, but when about to be imprisoned, he finds the owner of the money has died.

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