Joy

Joy

Drama

Nagisa Oshima

Katsuo Nakamura, Mariko Kaga, Yumiko Nogawa, Masako Yagi, Toshiko Higuchi, Hiroko Shimizu

1965

Japan

Film review analysis↗

Completed

Japanese

104 minutes

2025-03-02 16:47:06

Detailed introduction

This film (drama)Also known as悦楽,is aJapanProducerwomen sex,At1965Released in year 。The dialogue language isJapanese,Current Douban rating7.0(For reference only)。
The protagonist is a poor young man. One day, a corrupt official, who has embezzled public funds, visits him and decides to deposit the embezzled money with the young man before serving his sentence. Because this official witnessed the young man committing murder, he is afraid to report the embezzled money to the police. However, the young man, having lost his goal in life due to a breakup, plans to squander the embezzled funds and then commit suicide. He begins to live the life he once dreamed of, using money to seduce women, treating each one as a slave. But this joy is futile. The film was made during Japan's economic peak, the "golden era." People were overwhelmed by the prosperity and wealth of the economy. Yesterday, they were failures and the poor; today, they became the wealthy of their dreams. This rapid transformation in life violently threw people off their normal psychological track, and they inexplicably discovered their own joy. Nagisa Oshima saw this reality and keenly sensed the despair and helplessness within it, which led him to create this satirical and cautionary film. One major regret of this film, which disappointed many critics, is its overly formulaic and conceptual nature, as well as its connections and imitations of Oshima's earlier works like "Cruel Story of Youth." However, the film underwent strict scrutiny and cuts from the Metropolitan Police Department before its release, severely compromising its integrity, which is likely one reason for its lack of success.

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