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MrE2Me
Uploaded in HD (with English subs) for you fine folks here:
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https://ok.ru/video/12001039157810
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Siskoid
Nagisa Ōshima's Empire of Passion stars Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Seki, a pleasantly spirited lady married to a rickshaw driver, but pestered with attention by Toyoji, just returned to rural Japan from his military service. After he has her way with her several times, he manipulates her into helping him kill her husband. A Hitchcock premise, but three years later, the latter returns to haunt her as a ghost and we're in Japanese folk tale territory. By then, the bloom is rather off the rose, but the relationship is still on. It's problematic that sexual assault has turned to lust, but I don't think it's psychologically false. In her time and culture, Seki has lost more than she has gained, and guilt has smothered up those pleasant spirits. If the rest of the village wasn't being haunted too, you'd almost believe the ghost was all in her head. Ōshima's eroticism is on show, but also is ability to create images of real beauty. The leaves falling down the well, the way the camera discovers the guilty lovers (in positions indicating where they are in the story), and the passing of seasons are all impeccable.
