Part of the Japanese Cinema 1960s series co-presented with the Japan Foundation.

Dir. Nagisa Oshima. 1965.
91 min. 35mm. Color.
In Japanese with English subtitles.

In a career spanning four decades, Nagisa Oshima (Cruel Story of Youth, In the Realm of the Senses) has made some of the most memorable as well as formally and politically provocative films highlighting outcasts, criminals, and rebellious youth in Japanese film history. In Pleasures, a lovesick young man entrusted with a case of money belonging to an imprisoned bureaucrat embarks on a year of sexual fantasies and indulgence. Janus Films.

'Japan's greatest living filmmaker.' ' J. Hoberman, Village Voice

'A brilliant stylistic exercise on a sensual subject.' ' Max Tessier, film scholar

This project was supported in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Watch a trailer for Pleasures of the Flesh