{"id":17771,"date":"2025-08-24T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:05:10","slug":"pleasures-of-the-flesh-1965-nagisa-oshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17771","title":{"rendered":"Pleasures of the Flesh (1965, Nagisa Oshima)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad-luck dummy Itsushi (guy with the writing on his face in the same year&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5246\">Kwaidan<\/a><\/em>) loves his student Shoko (<em>Pale Flower<\/em>) but she marries someone else.  Itsushi tries to protect her by pushing some guy off a train, but is spotted and blackmailed(??) by another dummy who stole a suitcase full of money and wants someone he doesn&#8217;t know to watch it while he&#8217;s in prison.  Itsushi decides he&#8217;ll just spend it all on women and let the criminal kill him when his sentence is up.  First he shacks up with Hitomi (Green Maya in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7278\">Gate of Flesh<\/a><\/em>), the ex of a gangster who catches up with her, at the cost of her pinky finger.  Then he buys Shizuko (<em>Eros + Massacre<\/em>), sending the money to her shady husband, who eventually comes to take her back.  Then he&#8217;s with Nurse Keiko, who feigns illness for a whole month to avoid having sex with him, then tries walking into the sea, then marries him but doesn&#8217;t stop hating him.  Finally he buys sexy deaf-mute Mari from a thug, who tries to steal the rest of the money.  And when his true love Shoko comes back to him in need, he&#8217;s just finished spending it all, so she turns him in to the cops.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hitomi with knife, about to lose a finger:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/flesh1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>The year before <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7294\">Violence at Noon<\/a><\/em>, based on a story by the <em>Samurai Reincarnation<\/em> guy.  I&#8217;m really enjoying all the pre-1971 Oshima movies, should maybe watch more of those.<\/p>\n<p><em>Keiko:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/flesh2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/flesh3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Mari:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/flesh4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/flesh5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad-luck dummy Itsushi (guy with the writing on his face in the same year&#8217;s Kwaidan) loves his student Shoko (Pale Flower) but she marries someone else. Itsushi tries to protect her by pushing some guy off a train, but is spotted and blackmailed(??) by another dummy who stole a suitcase full of money and wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,2820,36,873,1312],"class_list":["post-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-heist","tag-japan","tag-nagisa-oshima","tag-prostitute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17828,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions\/17828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}