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Matt wrote:Gary's screencaps do look a lot better (sharper) than those at "Land of Whimsy."

rohmerin wrote:Abaout the Studi canal collection? Any new title is annouced?

rohmerin wrote: and more important: Where can I find any of them CHEAP ? When I mean cheap is 10 euros or 10 pounds, not 24 euros or 17 pounds (Spain or UK).
Gracias

From legendary Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, out on October 17:


EMPIRE OF PASSION ("AI NO BOREI") - Out on Double Play & EST
A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband had plenty of sake to drink and was in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. To avert any suspicions, she pretends her husband has gone off to Tokyo to work. For three years the wife and her lover secretly see each other. Finally, suspicions become very strong and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, her husband's ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrives to investigate her husband's disappearance.

Extras:

• Sur Le Tournage: 2003 Interview program featuring production consultant Koji Wakamatsu and assistant directors Yusuke Narita and Yoichi Sai
• Panel discussion at Birkbeck College with Japanese film scholars
• Booklet from scholar

IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES ("AI NO KORIDA") - Out on Double Play
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardour, they forsake all, even life itself.

Extras:

• Recalling the Film: 2003 Program featuring interviews with consulting producer Hayao Shibata, line producer Koji Wakamatsu, assistant director Yoichi Sai and distributor Yoko Asakura
• Panel discussion at Birkbeck College with Japanese film scholars
• Once Upon a Time: In the Realm of the Senses
• Deleted Scenes
• Booklet from scholar or book excerpt

MERRY CHRISTMAS MR LAWRENCE - Out on Double Play
In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of commiting suicide. One of the prisoners, interpreter John Lawrence, tries to explain the Japanese way of thinking, but is considered a traitor.

Extras:

• Theatrical Trailer
• The Oshima Gang - Making of Featurette
• An Interview with Jeremy Thomas
• An Interview Ryuichi Sakamoto

It was not until 2011 that the BBFC was asked to judge the full version of the film again, with the 'penis tugging' scene reinstated. On this occasion, the Board concluded that the scene was not likely to be found indecent under more recent interpretation of the Protection of Children Act and the film was therefore passed '18' uncut for DVD re-release. The brief moment of 'penis tugging' does not occur within a sexual context and is not at all sexual or eroticised in nature.

RossyG wrote:Me too, but it's the usual thing with the BBFC. They think something's shocking until something more shocking comes along then the first shocking thing seems less shocking and they allow its release. ](*,)

MichaelB wrote:...because you really don't want to end up in court on something even vaguely connected to child sex abuse.

MichaelB wrote:I'd love to see the BBFC's full reasoning for the change of policy - I assume they've taken legal advice on it (given that this was one of their most controversial titles, they could hardly not have done), but is their new interpretation really legally watertight?

peerpee wrote:<Daily Mail>The BBFC are now clearly sending out the signal that the penis tugging of young boys is legal. We have generations of people in the UK who never saw the penis tugging, and now the current generation - consisting of all these rioters - are being given the message that penis tugging is okay.</Daily Mail>

swo17 wrote:I kind of wish I didn't know what that sentence meant.

PLOT wrote:The film centers on an antagonist called Martin (Laurence Harvey), who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of the film within the film, The Human Centipede (First Sequence). In the DVD, a surgeon kidnaps three people and surgically connects them mouth-to-anus. Martin masturbates as he watches the film, with sandpaper wrapped around his penis. He subsequently creates his own twelve-person "human centipede" and gains sexual gratification from the pain, humiliation and suffering of his victims. He is shown to become sexually aroused whenever a member of his centipede is forced to defecate into the mouth of the victim behind them. Martin rapes the woman at the rear of the centipede with barbed wire wrapped around his penis.