If you loved Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, try Pleasures of the Flesh

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

1967 · dir. Nagisa Ōshima

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Pleasures of the Flesh

1965 · dir. Nagisa Ōshima

What they share

Both films are directed by Nagisa Ōshima, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Pleasures of the Flesh is

Murder seems like a solid life choice here. Atsushi is blackmailed after committing murder. His subsequent reckless actions are predictable.

If you loved Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, try Pleasures of the Flesh

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

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What they share

What Pleasures of the Flesh is

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