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1) Passion
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日本語
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When Kaho and Tomoya announce their engagement at a celebratory dinner with friends, they are unprepared for the emotional turmoil that is unleashed once a prior infidelity comes to light. Later that evening, Tomoya is invited to the apartment of his former classmate, Takako, leading to further revelations of passion and indiscretion. The debut theatrical feature from one of today's preeminent auteurs, PASSION displays Ryusuke Hamaguchi's rich and...
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Criterion collection volume 467
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日本語
Description
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...
4) Sōshun
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日本語
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A salaryman in postwar Tokyo has an illicit affair with an officemate in this moving portrait of a fragile marriage.
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日本語
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An exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker₂s wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death.
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日本語
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Towako lives with the fifteen-year-older Jinji, yet still cannot forget about Kurosaki, a guy she broke up with eight years ago. While feeling nothing but disgust for the uncouth and ill-mannered Jinji, she does not mind sitting around and living off his low salary. One day Towako meets Mizushima, a married man with a family. Somewhere in his sweet talk, she is reminded of Kurosaki. Soon, the two are having an affair.
Series
Criterion collection volume 949
Language
日本語
Description
"[A]n exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death."--Container.
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日本語
Description
[v. 1]. Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father - setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral.
[v. 2]. Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods.
[v. 3]. Women of the night. The story of two sisters,...
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