Lady Chatterley In Tokyo
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is a 1977
1977 in film
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....

 Japan
Japan
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ese film in Nikkatsu
Nikkatsu
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's Roman porno series, directed by Katsuhiko Fujii and starring Izumi Shima
Izumi Shima
is a Japanese actress known especially for her roles in Nikkatsu Roman Porno series of films.-Life and career:Shima was born Keiko Ishida in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan on December 3, 1953. She made her debut with the Nikkatsu studio in the August 1977 Roman Porno film Lady Chatterley In...

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Synopsis

Mio is a young woman whose husband is a millionaire's son. When he becomes impotent following an automobile accident, she begins an affair with their gardener and chauffeur, Nitta. After her husband discovers Mio's infidelity, he forces her to leave.

Critical appraisal

In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, the Weissers give Lady Chatterly in Tokyo a rating of two out of four. They contend that by changing the lead female character from the loyal wife with unsatisfied sexual needs, in Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...

's original Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy with assistance from Pino Orioli; it could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960...

, Lady Chatterly in Tokyo removes the social and psychological conflict in the novel. "...all human interest", they write", "is missing from director Fujii's banal version. Instead, he merely offers a superficial adulterous story with little or no relationship to Lawrence's characters."

The film was not popular with the usual pink film and Roman Porno audience. It was advertised as a "love story", and proved surprisingly popular with female audiences, not the usual target for the Roman Porno series.

Availability

Lady Chatterley In Tokyo was released theatrically in Japan on August 20, 1977. It was released on VHS in Japan on May 25, 1989, and re-released in April 1995.
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