The Fruits of Passion (1981) Shuji Terayama

Les fruits de la passion

aka The Fruits Of Passion (1983)

Genre: Drama | Erotic

Country: Japan/France | Director: Shuji Terayama

Language: English with French and Chinese parts | Subtitles: English (.srt file)

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 83mn

Dvdrip Xvid Avi - 608x368 - 23.976fps - 697mb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082422/

The story takes place in Shanghai. A girl loves a rich and much older man (played by Kinski). She is willing to do everything he wants to show her love, but he is playing a sick game with her. As part of this game he sends her to a Chinese brothel. A poor young boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he joins "the revolution". Additionally the movie shows the fate of some of the other prostitutes.

This film has less S and M and bondage than the original "Story of O", but the sex scenes are much more graphic. There is one obviously unsimulated oral sex scene and another "missionary" scene with Kinski and Illiers that looks pretty unsimulated as well. If you consider this a hardcore porn film, it is a veritable masterpiece. The cinematography is excellent and the musical score is good. There are a lot of poetic images--for instance, a long shot of a dead bird floating in the bay outside the convent, and later a surreal Jean Rollinesque image of a drowned woman floating on a grand piano (?!) in this same bay. Most hardcore porn films wouldn't bother with such arty digressions. As an art film though, which this is also obviously trying to be, it is less successful, mostly because all the characters are pretty thinly drawn.
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