ai no corrida, other oshima

[Aaron Gerow]

>anyway, my question regards other Oshima films.  i wonder if Seishun Zankoku
>Monogatari was banned at its release...  although nowhere near as explicit
>as Ai No Corrida it contained scenes which would have warranted prohibition
>in the U.S. in 1960.

Cruel Story of Youth was not banned, nor was it one of his early films to 
suffer a lot of censorship.  The case of Night and Fog in Japan being 
pulled from the theaters (supposedly for political reasons) is famous, 
but The Sun's Burial (1960) and Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) were both 
strictly "inspected" by Eirin, to the point that Oshima said of the 
latter that "it was ruined."  

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