1975 Film Editorial note

Oryu's Passion: Bondage Skin

Original title: お柳情炎 縛り肌

Also known as Oryu Joen: Shibari Hada

Language Japanese

Fujii Katsuhiko's Nikkatsu film combines a ninkyo revenge story with an adaptation of Dan Oniroku. Tani Naomi plays Oryu, whose search for revenge follows the killing of the head of a gambling family in early Showa Jōshū.

The film connects Dan Oniroku's writing with the ninkyo strand of Tani Naomi's screen work. In a 2012 retrospective conversation, Tani singled it out among the films Dan admired. It belongs to the history of screen representation, not practical rope instruction.

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