N0.1 大島渚「愛のコリーダ」(1976) を読む
大島の戦時中の自慢話に、軍部の没収と母親による処分を避けて、彼は父の蔵書・ロシア版資本論を壷に隠して地中に埋めたというのがあります。たぶん、この記憶は愛と嫉妬のイマージュに変容したのではないでしょうか？サダ=大島は切断した吉のペニスを膣の中に埋め込むのです。それを他の人に使われたくないという。と、このように、記憶というのは、絶えず発明することが必要で、一度でもそれをやめてしまうと化石となってしまいます。その意味で記憶は事件性です。現在、この映画に喚起されることをあらためて考えますと、それはなんだろうか...エクリチュールの脱構築性で読み解く研究がありますが、そこまでのことではないのですけれど、マルクスの思弁性をいかに経験事件性にしていくかという書くことにかかわる課題ですね
This film made Oshima notorious as well as famous. Actually, the censorship to this film due to its unsimulated and explicit sex scenes made it notorious, but film is purely an erotic masterpiece. It is very beautiful, immensely erotic, chilling and romantic.
When Oshima was searching for the lead actress and was in doubt whether he would find her, his own actress wife told him that if he couldn’t find anyone, then she herself would play in his film. Actually, his wife had s...aid that just to encourage other actresses, to make them believe that the film wouldn’t contain too many pornographic elements.
Another famous filmmaker, Koji Wakamatsu, helped him to find casting actors and they took Eiko Matsuda as female lead and Tatsuya Fuji as male lead; they made a perfect couple. This combination is also the best part of this film since there are so many romantic and sex scenes between them. They both performed very brilliantly and lively. Beautiful cinematography, hauntingly mesmerizing imageries, and highly erotic and romantic scenes have made this film one of the most beautiful films ever made.
This film is actually about love, especially about a sensual love. A woman has insatiable sexual desires and she wants the best sex as often as she can. The man tries to give it, but slowly becomes incapable of fulfilling her desires. Jealousy is another main theme; she doesn’t want his penis being used by any other woman, even his wife!
What is more interesting and shocking about this film is that it is based on real incidents in the life of Sada Abe, who later became a folk hero in her native Japan. She believes that a woman loves only one person in her entire life and she doesn’t want other women to share him. It is possibly the greatest erotic film ever made.
