The title might lead one to expect that Nagisa Oshima has made a direct followup to his In the Realm of the Senses (or if not to that, then to Star Wars). But it's not in the same world, let alone same realm or same empire. There is little visible sex, although fair-sized embarrassment to go with it. What is most lacking, despite the amount of squawking and gibbering by the lead actress, is any adequate depiction of the overpowering passion that would drive a frustrated housewife and a virile younger man to murder the woman's husband, who comes back to haunt them as a flour-faced ghost. The photography is often quite pretty, in a succulently lit, calendar-art kind of way. With Kazuko Yoshiyuki and Tatsuya Fuji. (1978) — Duncan Shepherd
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