Immoral Prosperity

Akio Jissoji
Seiran Li, Koji Shimizu, Akira Makino
1988
Japan
Completed
Japanese
95 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known as悪徳の栄え,is aJapanProducerwomen sex,At1988Released in year
。The dialogue language isJapanese,Current Douban rating6.9(For reference only)。
In the 10th year of the Showa era, the Duke of Shiranui (Koji Shimizu) was planning to stage a play of Marquis de Sade's "The Crimes of Passion" with his wife Tamae (Seiran Li) in the lead role, supported entirely by a cast of criminal theater members. The duke had instructed the theater member Han (Ko Akira Makino) to violate his wife as part of the behind-the-scenes direction... This unique work, directed by Akio Jissoji, transforms Sade's original text into a play-within-a-play, depicting the decadence of the aristocracy just before the 226 Incident in early Showa, with rich eroticism. It captures perversion, desire, and decay through thoroughly stylish visual beauty while cleverly portraying the ensuing sense of frenzied loneliness. Furthermore, since the film is set in early Showa Tokyo, it is praised as being intrinsically linked to Jissoji's previous work "Teito Monogatari." The exceptional performance of Koji Shimizu, embodying both elegance and madness, is also noteworthy. A suspense mystery created by the genius director Akio Jissoji. Using Marquis de Sade's representative work "The Crimes of Passion" as a motif, it depicts a mad love world interwoven with the reality and fiction of high-society criminals performing a play.