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Directed by Walerian Borowczyk, Just Jaeckin, Shūji Terayama
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Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?Read moreLess
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?
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Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?
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Roland Blanche(segment "L'île aux sirènes")
Marie-Catherine Conti(segment "L'armoire")
Marpessa Dawna siren
Laura Gemser(segment "L'île aux sirènes")
Jūzō Itami(segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
Yves-Marie Maurinthe customer (segment "L'armoire")
Hiroshi Mikami(segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
Keiko Niitaka(segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
Takeshi Wakamatsu(segment "Kusa-Meikyu")Explore the crew
- Director
- Walerian Borowczyk
- Director
- Just Jaeckin
- Director
- Shūji Terayama
- Writer
- Walerian Borowczyk
- Writer
- Guy de Maupassant
- Writer
- Jean-Michel Ribes
- Director of Photography
- Robert Fraisse
- Director of Photography
- Tatsuo Suzuki
- Director of Photography
- Noël Véry
- Editor
- Michèle Boëhm
- Editor
- Khadicha Bariha
- Editor
- Tomoyo Oshima
- Screenplay
- Rio Kishida
- Screenplay
- Shūji Terayama