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Fruits of Passion

Original title: Les fruits de la passion
  • 1981
  • R
  • 1h 19m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
2.1K
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Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Illiers in Fruits of Passion (1981)
Drama

A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.

  • Director
    • Shûji Terayama
  • Writers
    • Dominique Aury
    • Shûji Terayama
    • Rio Kishida
  • Stars
    • Klaus Kinski
    • Isabelle Illiers
    • Arielle Dombasle
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    2.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Shûji Terayama
    • Writers
      • Dominique Aury
      • Shûji Terayama
      • Rio Kishida
    • Stars
      • Klaus Kinski
      • Isabelle Illiers
      • Arielle Dombasle
    • 14User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Klaus Kinski
    Klaus Kinski
    • Sir Stephen
    Isabelle Illiers
    Isabelle Illiers
    • O
    Arielle Dombasle
    Arielle Dombasle
    • Nathalie
    Pîtâ
    Pîtâ
    • Madame
    • (as Peter)
    Keiko Niitaka
    Keiko Niitaka
    • Aisen
    Sayoko Yamaguchi
    • Sakuya
    Hitomi Takahashi
    Hitomi Takahashi
    • Byakuran
    Miyuki Ono
    • Kasen
    Yuka Kamebuchi
    • Koken
    Akiko Suetsugu
    • Obana
    Kenichi Nakamura
    • The young man
    Takeshi Wakamatsu
    • The guardian of the house
    Georges Wilson
    Georges Wilson
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Maria Meriko
    • The death
    • (voice)
    Makiko Hirasawa
    • Other lady
    Kaoru Iinuma
    • Other lady
    Keiko Asano
    • Other lady
    Toshihiko Hino
    • The dwarf
    • Director
      • Shûji Terayama
    • Writers
      • Dominique Aury
      • Shûji Terayama
      • Rio Kishida
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    7derek-duerden

    Could Have Been Better...

    ... in particular, I was thinking that "Lust, Caution" blended the aspects of eroticism and uprising/terrorism much more effectively - not helped here by (in my view) the relatively unconvincing acting of the lovelorn young rebel.

    Having said that, I was not at all impressed by Just Jaeckin's "Story of O" (the alleged predecessor), and this is better than that, IMHO. And Kinski is clearly having a lot of "fun" (of his own kind). I can't decide whether Illiers' relative blankness is actually an appropriate asset, given the context and character, or also a problem.

    Meanwhile, there's some nice touches of humour, and the cinematography and set design is pretty good, so it doesn't feel at all like "a cheap piece of trash" - even if some may think that's exactly what it is :)

    Worth a look.
    3ts_nowhere

    Full of exaggerated symbolism and unintended humor

    I really like Kinski he is a great actor. I've seen this movie because I've heard that there are autobiographic aspects in this movie.

    The film is full of symbols like a piano sinking in a river or strange shadow-pictures at the walls. Then the narrator always says abstract sentences like: "A kid sells fortune, but her box is empty now." This is really disturbing and wasn't really necessary, because everyone understands what this movie is all about. The movie shows how Kinski's character treated woman, and how he kept them under control. If there are really some aspects of Kinski's life in this story - then he really was an swine. So there is no need to watch this movie, unless if you want to see Kinski naked or if you like sick trash movies to laugh about.
    2ee-films-director

    The "stale" review was accurate

    I bought this film on DVD despite the "stale" review and that was idiotic... That review was completely accurate and I have never seen any worse "erotic" film in my long life! Even if it partly was lovely filmed and had interesting surroundings, plus a nice cover... But my own Extreme Erotica (c) films are over 100 times more erotic (just in the soft delicious aspect) with probably less than 100 times of this films budget! The story have no logical connection with the first film or the famous book... Or any new (exciting) element of slave training, except some very strange and sad developments... Then did the main male character - Klaus Kinski - not look a bit like the second Master of "O" he try to play... And not even lovely Arielle Dombasle, did look delicious in any scene!
    tedg

    The Perversion of Futures

    This will not be a positive experience for everyone. Several things would be offputting. Most would be offended that it is based on a book with trivial sensibilities. There is explicit sex. The nature of the thing slips often into visual symbolism. Many languages are spoken. Some of the text is sophomoric. Obsession, perversion, sexual quest, caste and political struggle are mixed up with no apparent coherence. Advertised as erotic, it is anything but.

    And yet. It is deliciously placed between Breilliat and Resnais and is better than most from them. If you watch a lot of movies and deeply, like I do, the better ones form a sort of tapestry that reinforce each other. Two of my "must-see" films are "Pillow Book" and "Fitzcarraldo," which this lean up against. Not of the same caliber of course, but there's a resonance.

    There are some marvelous experiences here. For instance, the young girl is newly established in her sparse cell at the brothel. She has put on the bottom of her dress and stands at the night window, pining for Kinski (who is with another lover). Across the screen on the wall is her shadow, a lovely, lonely pose, breasts alert. She moves away from the window in impatience. The shadow remains unmoved.

    Another: flashback to O as a girl, imprisoned by her father in a chalk square while he walks away and a clown rolls a flaming hoop about. The receding man turns into Kinski. Flash forward to the prostituted O, sewing the torn photo of Kinski, just before she is placed in a flying swan device to be sodomized by an aging client.

    Another prostitute in the brothel is an aging actress. To get her to "perform," they set up a camera to pretend they are shooting, "Sunset Blvd." wise. We see this a couple times, then it shifts from the pretend movie to a (presumed) past, real movie. This raises an issue that leads to her suicide in the fashion of Ophelia. Her body in the pond is lifted by a rising piano.

    The story (the parts that don't matter to me) is influenced by Kinski, partly autobiographical and right before we see the same character (in a similar white suit) in "Fitzcarraldo." The madness matters.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
    2Seamus2829

    Rotten Peaches & Other Moldy Fruit

    This film is sometimes called 'The Story of O-Pt.2',which tries to pass itself off as a sequel (of sorts)to the French erotic S&M thriller 'The Story Of O'. Although I've never seen the original version, I did, however get to see this sorry mixed bag of sexual & social politics. I guess the 'O' angle comes from the occasional S&M overtones (which were never as explicit (and unpleasant to watch) as the ones in 'Mistress'. Klaus Kinski is the only recognizable face in this French/Japanese production (but speaks his lines in English--at least in the version I saw). The unnecessary use of surrealism only manages to make this some what boring example in pseudo porn even more pretentious (what are they trying to prove with depicting a piano floating in water?). It's obvious that after the whole "porno chic" trend in cinema petered out (ouch-sorry,bad pun!)about 1975, producers had to scrape the bottom of the barrel trying to please the mavens of adult cinema,not to mention Foreign/Art Cinema,so film goers had to contend with dreck like 'The Last Woman',and others like it.

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    • Trivia
      In an interview that she gives to a magazine, Arielle Dombasle looks back on her film career and in particular an erotic film, titled Fruits of Passion (1981), which she would have preferred to forget. "It was something that made me suffer horribly. I was too young to do that, and then Kinski ... he was crazy" she says. Arielle shot this film in 1981. She was then 28 years old. There she play opposite to Klaus Kinski. According to the artist and muse of Bernard-Henri Lévy, playing the opposite to the German actor was hell. "He's a guy who crushed the weak, the nastiest trait there is. Someone who liked relationships by force, who absolutely wanted to be loved and who did everything to not love him. Unbearable ".
    • Quotes

      Obana: Leave him alone. If he wants to kill himself drinking's as good a way as any.

      Kasen: Yeah, and the cemetary costs a lot less than the alcohol.

    • Alternate versions
      The 1998 VHS tape had 19 secs cut by the BBFC these cuts removed woman being whipped whilst on a wheel, a rough sex scene and sight of oral sex. The 2005 DVD was passed uncut.
    • Connections
      Followed by The Story of O 2 (1984)

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    • Release date
      • November 1982 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Japan
    • Languages
      • English
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Foreigner from Shanghai Brothel
    • Filming locations
      • Hong Kong, China
    • Production companies
      • Argos Films
      • Jinriki Hikoki Sha
      • Launoy Films
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 19m(79 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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