Fruits of Passion
Fruits of Passion is a 1981 French-Japanese co-production directed by Shūji Terayama and starring Klaus Kinski. The film is loosely based on the novel Retour à Roissy by Anne Desclos, written as a sequel to the Story of O.
While the film continues the story of O, a subplot depicts an anti-European rebellion in southern China.
Plot
The lead characters of the Story of O and Retour à Roissy novels, Sir Stephen and O, are placed in southern China where Sir Stephen owns a casino. Sir Stephen places O in a Chinese brothel for "training" and O is then subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience. A sub-plot concerns a local rebellion due to the resentment towards Europeans by the local population and a young man desperate to afford O's favors at the brothel.Cast
- Isabelle Illiers as O
- Klaus Kinski as Sir Stephen
- Arielle Dombasle as Nathalie
- Peter as Madame
- Keiko Niitaka as Aisen
- Sayoko Yamaguchi as Sakuya
- Hitomi Takahashi as Byakuran
- Miyuki Ono as Kasen
- Yuka Kamebuchi
- Kenichi Nakamura as Le jeune homme, Ogaku
- Akiro Suetsugu as Obana
- Renji Ishibashi as Kato
- Takeshi Wakamatsu as Le gardien de la maison
- Georges Wilson as Le narrateur
Production
In a 2017 interview with the French magazine VSD, Arielle Dombasle looked back on the film with regret: "It's something that hurt me terribly, I was too young to do that, and then Kinski... he was crazy." She added about Kinski: "He's a guy who crushes the weak, the ugliest thing in the world, someone who loved power, who absolutely wanted to be loved, and who did everything to make sure we did not love him."In his autobiography, Klaus Kinski claimed the sex scenes in which he participated in this movie were unsimulated.