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  • Empire Of Passion (1978)
    Review preview for Empire Of Passion

    The performances are captivating, especially from Yoshiyuki, who is bewitching and keeps her essentially unlikeable charater, sympathetic.

    Paul Logan · 3 out of 5
    A soldier embarks on an affair with an older married woman.
  • In The Realm Of The Senses (1976)
    Review preview for In The Realm Of The Senses

    Despite all the outrageous and mostly un-simulated activity, there is a real sensuality to the couple's contact, as well as a sad undertow to their sadistic influence upon each other.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    A man begins an affair with one of his servants.
  • The Naked Island (1960)
    Review preview for The Naked Island

    Made over many months by a tiny cast and crew who themselves lived on the otherwise uninhabited island and sowed and tended the crops there, The Naked Island is both in love with labour, and a labour of love.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    The struggles of a family on an isolated island.

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