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Kōji Wakamatsu
Production Manager -
Nagisa Ōshima
Director -
Ken'ichi Okamoto
Lighting Technician -
Keiichi Uraoka
Editor -
Minoru Miki
Original Music Composer -
Shigemasa Toda
Production Design -
Yoichi Sai
Assistant Director -
Terumi Hosoishi
Special Effects
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Sigeki Ogino 10/3/2022 2:28:22PM
To put it bluntly, it was Pasolini and Nagisa Oshima who elevated pornography to an art form. "Ai no Corrida" is a film based on the crazy scandal of a Japanese woman, Sada Abe, who was obsessed with sex. The film is a masterful depiction of sex, and in the uncensored version, viewers will be surprised to find that the sex acts in the film are no different from those in pornographic videos. Some may be put off by the scenes of pubic hair, semen, and lewd displays of genitalia, male and female. However, it is questionable to dismiss the film's unusual artistry on that basis alone. No one can fail to notice that the sex scenes depicted in "Ai no Corrida" are ten thousand times better than those in the erotic "Species". Nagisa Oshima is by far a more aesthetically pleasing director than Akira Kurosawa, and he could have made any number of films that ordinary people would enjoy watching. His talent is unwavering, and this sex-documentary style masterpiece is unique in Asia.
Akiko Koyama
Mansaki GeishaEiko Matsuda
Sada AbeMariko Abe
Kinu (Yoshidaya Maid)Kanae Kobayashi
Old Geisha KikuryûAoi Nakajima
TokuHiroko Fuji
O-Tsune (Yoshidaya Head Maid)Tatsuya Fuji
Kichizo IshidaNaomi Shiraishi
Geisha Yaeji