Sada: Gesaku · Abe Sada no shôgai

19981998
2h 12m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

357

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POPULARITY

78,150

820

Sada: Gesaku · Abe Sada no shôgai (1998)

Biography Drama

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

357

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

78,150

820

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Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination

Featured review

Delicate Japanese sado erotic stuff - if that doesn't confuse you.

The contrast between Oshima's IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES and the delicacy and stylishness of this film, which treats the same subject, is striking.

Whether the story of a woman who cuts off her lover's privates is better handled by a ham fisted celebrity pornographer is questionable.

Nobuhiko Obayashi's version comes complete with Brechtian devices (singing characters, narration by actors explaining their roles , switches to colour in which the blood remains black) and an elegant star turn by Miss Hitomi Kuroki, all of which make the piece intriguing and show considerable skill.

It hasn't attracted any of the censor controversy of the better know (and dodgy) version and hasn't earned it's makers a spot in film histories. Too bad.

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