Asian Erotic Collection [2 DVDs]

Two of the most radical and controversial works in film history, about sexual obsession, love and death - by the Japanese master director Nagisa Oshima. Awarded among others with the prize for best director at the 31st International Film Festival in Cannes 1978. "In the land of passion" Kichizô runs a geisha house where Sadda also works as a servant and prostitute. A passion develops between them that leaves all taboos and conventions behind and becomes increasingly obsessive. The pleasure they feel in their ecstasy is heightened by the pain. Their obsession finally has fatal consequences... "In the realm of the senses" When the ravishingly beautiful wife of an aging rickshaw man falls in love with a younger soldier, there seems to be only one way to satisfy the newly awakened passion: Together they murder the wife's husband and throw the body into a disused well shaft. But three years later, the crime is still not forgotten. When "apparitions" of the dead man haunt the dreams of the villagers, a policeman begins to investigate...