Japan, a small forgotten mountain village. Yi Saburo is a personal rickshaw driver, working all day, the only fun is to go home to drink a little wine and enjoy the gentle service of his wife. His wife, A Shi (Jixing Kazuo), is a typical rural woman. She has no culture and makes a living by helping others in the kitchen. A Shi is not too young, but his charm is still there. When he was young, he should be the beauty of the village. The days were peaceful and beautiful, very much like the life of the rural people of our grandfather's generation. But life will not remain the same. All kinds of changes in personnel and fate are crushed by disasters... Fengji (Teng Longya), a young man in the village, has nothing to do all day, and has been courteous to Ashi many times, but she remains unmoved. One day, Yi Saburo went out to work, Ashi and the child were taking a nap, Fengji sneaked in. Ah Shi, the woman Fengji once had a crush on, is now lying in front of him half naked. After all, the young soul could not resist the temptation in front of him. He stretched out his sinful hand to the woman's chest... Under the resistance of the woman, it was finally difficult to resist the young body, and they had sex with each other. The greater the desire, the greater the pain. After the passion, the two stayed together even more, determined to get rid of Yi Saburo. On a snowstorm night, a woman boiled sake, poured medicine in it, and waited for her husband to drink it, and the adulterer had already prepared a deadly hemp rope... "Dead Souls of Love", directed by Nagisa Oshima, love horror Feature film, starring: Yoshiyuki Kazuko, Fuji Ryuya, Tamura Takahiro, etc., released in 1978. The film is a companion piece to "The World of the Senses", in which the male protagonist Fengji's actor Fuji Ryu is also the hero of "The World of Senses". The film is also a French-funded co-production. In Japanese director Nobuo Nakagawa's bizarre horror films, ghosts must appear in extremely terrifying images, accompanied by a bloody storm of revenge. However, the ghosts introduced in the second half of the film are not so extreme. The director did not highlight the horror itself. Yi Saburo's ghosts are more the embodiment of Ashi's inner fear and guilt. Adulterers and prostitutes deserve death, but the director did not intend to fall into the stereotypes. It is conceivable that Ashi and Fengji suffered inner torture later, and finally accepted the punishment and drank the bitter wine they brewed. But the director also questioned the world from the perspective of compassion and compassion: Why do two men and women who love each other so much go to a tragic fate? Is it the destruction of women by conservative male chauvinism in rural areas? Or is it the repression of human nature by the shackles of traditional society? The photography in this film is beautiful, capturing the splendor of autumn, the chill of winter, and the details of Japanese life traditions. One of the scenes shows the two of Ashi crawling down the well to look for the corpse, as if they were watching all beings from the perspective of God, and they tortured people's souls while terrifying.
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