Il Medioevo erotico-boccaccesco

IL DECAMERONE ORIENTALE

(Kinpeibei)

1969, regia di Koji Wakamatsu

Scheda: Nazione: Giappone - Produzione: Shochiku - Distribuzione: Regionale, Boxoffice International Pictures, Something Weird Video - Soggetto: dal romanzo cinese  Jin Ping Mei - Sceneggiatura: Kazuko Waramatsu - Fotografia: Hideo Hito - Musiche: Masao Yagi - Formato: Granscope Eastmancolor - Durata: 87'.

Cast: Tomoko Mayama, Rikyokij Takashima, Kohel Tsuzaki, Kazuko Waramatsu.

Trama e commenti: cinematografo.it - mymovies.it: «Nella Cina del dodicesimo secolo scossa dalle lotte sociali e da profonde ingiustizie di classe, Chin, donna del popolo, avvelena il marito per legarsi al cognato Wu-Sung, che perņ, pur amandola la respinge. Chin allora sposa il ricco e lussurioso Hsi-Men, mentre Wu si unisce a una banda di ribelli che lottano contro lo strapotere dei signori. Ritrovandosi faccia a faccia con Chin nella reggia dove lei č divenuta potente padrona, Wu, che la ama sempre, č costretto ad ucciderla in nome degli ideali per cui si batte».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - entertainment.msn.com - dvdverdict.com - jfilmpowwow.blogspot.i - dighkmovies.com: «Director Koji Wakamatsu is admired for such startling underground productions as GO, GO SECOND TIME VIRGIN and ECSTASY OF THE ANGELS. However, he occasionally worked on more mainstream projects like this Shochiku adaptation of the scandalous Chinese erotic novel Jin Ping Mei, the content of which is potent enough for the book to remain banned in China to this day. Pan Jin-lien (Tomoko Mayama), the beautiful, scheming wife of rice seller Wu Ta (Hatsuo Yamatani), has an affair but is forgiven this transgression by her obsequious husband. The woman quickly gives in to temptation and poisons Ta, but fears what the man's brother, soldier Wu Sung (Shikokyu Takashima), might do upon returning to the region. Sure enough, upon seeing his brother's spirit tablet, Sung goes berserk, commits murder, and is sentenced to death. In the meantime, Jin-lien has become the fifth wife of decadent Hsi Men-ching (future director Juzo Itami) but is soon forgotten by the drinking, carousing nobleman. Jin-lien also has a hostile relationship with her fellow concubines and, when Men-ching marries a sixth time and fathers a son with his new bride, Jin-lien murders the baby. Men-ching drowns his sorrows in wine and sex but he has worse problems ahead: Wu Sung has escaped execution and is leading a group of murderous bandits into the territory».

Conosciuto anche con i titoli: Chin pei ming; The Concubines; The Notorious Concubines.

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