''Fruits of Passion'' (french: Les fruits de la passion; ja, 上海異人娼館/チャイナ・ドール, ) is a 1981 French-Japanese co-production directed by
Shūji Terayama
was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (''Angura'') theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema ...
and starring
Klaus Kinski. The film is loosely based on the novel ''Retour à Roissy'' by
Anne Desclos
Anne Cécile Desclos (23 September 1907 – 27 April 1998) was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pen names Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage. She is best known for her erotic novel '' Story of O'' (1954).
Early life
Born ...
, written as a sequel to the ''
Story of O''.
Plot
The lead characters of the ''
Story of O'' and ''Retour à Roissy'' novels, Sir Stephen and O, are placed in southern China where Sir Stephen owns a casino. Sir Stephen places O in a Chinese brothel for "training" and O is then subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience. A sub-plot concerns a local rebellion due to the resentment towards Europeans by the local population and a young man desperate to afford O's favors at the brothel.
Cast
* Isabelle Illiers as O
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Klaus Kinski as Sir Stephen
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Arielle Dombasle as Nathalie
*
Peter
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a sur ...
as Madame
* Keiko Niitaka as Aisen
*
Sayoko Yamaguchi
Sayoko Yamaguchi ( Japanese: 山口小夜子, September 19, 1949 – August 14, 2007) was a Japanese model and actress.
Yamaguchi was a Yokohama native and a graduate of Sugino Gakuen's Dressmaker Gakuin design school in Tokyo.
Yamaguchi ...
as Sakuya
*
Hitomi Takahashi as Byakuran
* Miyuki Ono as Kasen
* Yuka Kamebuchi
* Kenichi Nakamura as Le jeune homme, Ogaku
* Akiro Suetsugu as Obana
*
Renji Ishibashi
, born is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 15th Hochi Film Award for '' Rōnin-gai''.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video game
* '' Yakuza: Dead Souls'' - Oyassan
References
External links
*
Renji Ishi ...
as Kato
* Takeshi Wakamatsu as Le gardien de la maison
*
Georges Wilson
Georges Wilson (16 October 1921 – 3 February 2010) was a French film and television actor. He was the father of French actor Lambert Wilson.
Biography
Wilson was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, Seine (now Val-de-Marne) as the illegitimat ...
as Le narrateur (voice)
Production
In a 2017 interview with
VSD (French magazine)
''VSD'' is a French weekly news, celebrity and leisure magazine, published on Thursdays in France. The name is formed from the first letters of the French names for Friday (Vendredi), Saturday (Samedi) and Sunday (Dimanche).
History and profile ...
,
Arielle Dombasle looked back on the film with regret: "It's something that hurt me terribly, I was too young to do that, and then Kinski ... he was crazy." She added about Kinski: "He's a guy who crushes the weak, the ugliest thing in the world, someone who loved power, who absolutely wanted to be loved, and who did everything to make sure we did not love him."
In his autobiography,
Klaus Kinski wrote all the sex scenes in which he participated in this movie were unsimulated.
Release
The film was released in France on 3 June 1981 as ''Les fruits de la passion'' and as ''Shanghai Ijin Shōkan - China Doll'' in Japan with censoring of the pubic areas in November 1981.
The USA release as ''Fruits of Passion'' with English dubbing occurred in November 1982. A version in Japanese with English subtitles on VHS tape and DVD was published as ''Fruits of Passion - The Story of "O" Continued'' on 20 June 2000. A digitally remastered version of the film was released in Japan in Japanese, English and French with Japanese subtitles in December 2005.
Reception
Reaction to the film has been mixed, Roberta Novielli described it as "shallow and decadent" and Jasper Sharp calls it "minor Terayama" whose "charms are mainly cosmetic", the costuming, sets and cinematography.
Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser give the movie three stars out of four but say it is based on the "look" of the film and not on its narrative or coherence.
References
External links
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1981 films
1981 drama films
BDSM in films
French erotic drama films
Japanese erotic drama films
1980s French-language films
1980s Japanese-language films
1980s English-language films
1980s erotic drama films
Japanese multilingual films
French multilingual films
Films based on French novels
Films directed by Shūji Terayama
Films produced by Anatole Dauman
1981 multilingual films
1980s Japanese films
1980s French films