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Odd Obsession

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Odd Obsession	comment	Odd Obsession is a 1959 film directed and co-written by Kon Ichikawa, starring Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, and Tatsuya Nakadai.Kenji Kenmochi (Nakamura) is an elderly professor of antiquities, now semi-retired. Advancing age has robbed him of his libido and his ability to sexually satisfy his much younger and extremely good-looking wife Ikuko (Kyo). Kenji is going to young Dr. Kimora (Nakadai) and receiving injections, which are failing to restore his sex drive but which are pushing his blood pressure to dangerously high levels.While treating Kenji, Kimora has been courting the Kenmochi's young daughter, Toshiko. One evening when he is visiting the Kenmochi home, Ikuko drinks way too much alcohol. She excuses herself from dinner, goes to the bathroom, and runs a bath, only to pass out while naked in the bathtub, fortunately with her head above water. As Kenji and Kimora pull Ikuko out of the bath, Kenji notes the doctor's reaction to his attractive nude wife, and more importantly, his own reaction to Kimora's reaction—the idea turns him on. Kenji hits on an idea: push his wife into an attraction with the handsome doctor, then use his own arousal at the prospect to revitalize his own sex drive.Extremely unfortunate consequences ensue.In Japanese this film is titled Kagi ("The Key"), based on a Japanese novel called The Key. In 1983 the source novel was made into an Italian film titled The Key, and in 1997 it was again adapted into a Japanese film called Kagi.
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Odd Obsession / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Odd Obsession / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: On two different occasions in which Kenji is staring at his nude, prone, unconscious wife, his body is carefully blocked so as to obscure Machiko Kyo's naughty bits.
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Odd Obsession / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Odd Obsession / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: The film opens with smarmy, arrogant Kimora looking straight at the camera, giving the audience a lecture about how the human body breaks down with age. He then states directly that "this is a story" about a man who couldn't accept the inevitability of getting old. Then the story starts as Kimora turns away from the camera and starts treating Kenji, his patient.
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Odd Obsession / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Odd Obsession / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The insecticide and cleanser cans. One's in a red can and the other's in a green can, and it is established that Hara is color-blind and can't tell the difference between cans. Hara decides to switch the contents of the cans so that she doesn't mix them up. What happens? Well, Tomiko decides to kill her mother and her faithless fiancé, so she doses their tea with poison—except that the poison is actually the cleanser, so all she does is give their tea a funny taste. However, it turns out that in addition to illogically switching out what's in the cans, Hara also quite logically marked the poison can with "poison" on the bottom. After looking at the bottom of the can and confirming that it is in fact poison, Hara dumps it on top of the salad, and thus murders all of the other three.
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Odd Obsession / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
Odd Obsession / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: Toshiko knows exactly what is going on, accusing Ikuko of using her own sexuality and the weird little triangle that she has with Kenji and Kimora in order to provoke Kenji into a fatal stroke. Not long thereafter Ikuko quite deliberately and successfully does exactly this, getting Kenji to have a stroke during sex. When this doesn't quite work, as Kenji is bedridden but still alive following the stroke, she strips naked by his bedside one night and succeeds in provoking another, fatal stroke. She gives a smirk of triumph after realizing that Kenji is in fact dead.
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Odd Obsession / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Odd Obsession / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: In the source novel, only Kenji dies, and the other three are left to live in a weird little ménage. This film has Hara the servant poisoning Kimora, Toshiko, and Ikuko, because they were "wicked."
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Odd Obsession / int_58030b25	type	Visual Innuendo
Odd Obsession / int_58030b25	comment	Visual Innuendo: After Kimora climbs on top of Toshiko (while she is still staring at nude pictures of her mom!) the film cuts to shots of trains in the nearby train station. Specifically, multiple shots of train cars—coupling. Followed by a shot of a steam whistle going off. The key to the back door that Ikuko gives Kimora, along with an explicit invitation to visit her for sex after everyone else has gone to bed, is a somewhat more subtle visual metaphor.
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Odd Obsession / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Odd Obsession / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The cops simply cannot process the idea that an elderly grandma housekeeper could murder three people, even after Hara confesses in full, saying that she put the insecticide in the salad. So they let her go.
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Odd Obsession / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Odd Obsession / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Early in the film Ikuko sees a kitten poking its head through the door. She goes to set out milk for the little kitten, until it comes inside and reveals that it is hobbling with a broken front leg. Disgusted, Ikuko chucks the kitten out. Notably, her husband Kenji walks with an obvious limp.
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Odd Obsession / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Odd Obsession / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Toshiko, although her age is a little vague (the actress was actually 23). She is generally surly and rude around her parents, and she's obviously jealous of her gorgeous mother—with cause, as events ultimately prove.
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Odd Obsession / int_8aa496df	type	Rape Discretion Shot
Odd Obsession / int_8aa496df	comment	Rape Discretion Shot: A naked, semi-conscious Ikuko reaches her hand up to Kenji's neck and calls him "Kimora." He grins evilly and says "It's working." The film cuts away as he's getting on top of her.
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Odd Obsession / int_8fb42f35	type	Erotic Film
Odd Obsession / int_8fb42f35	comment	Erotic Film: About as erotic as a Japanese film could get in 1959 (which was notably more erotic than a Hollywood film), dealing with jealousy, sexual frustration, and the often unclothed body of Machiko Kyo. Kimora reveals to Toshiko that her father had Kimora develop nude photos of her mother. Not only does Toshiko insist that he show the photos to her, she is clearly turned on by them, and continues to stare at them while they have sex.
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Odd Obsession / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Odd Obsession / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Kenji's other doctor makes sure to tell Ikuko that her husband is "the foremost authority on classical art objects", just so the audience knows what Kenji does for a living.
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Odd Obsession / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
Odd Obsession / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back: How Ikuko is shot when she strips naked in order to trigger Kenji's fatal stroke.
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Odd Obsession / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
Odd Obsession / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: Kenji, who looks to be at least a quarter-century older than his thirty-ish and very attractive wife, can't get it up anymore. He takes rather extreme and ill-advised measures to change that.
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Odd Obsession / int_c4b0faae	type	Can't Hold His Liquor
Odd Obsession / int_c4b0faae	comment	Can't Hold His Liquor: Ikuko is a lightweight who will pass out after moderate drinking. Once Kenji goes full perv he starts encouraging his wife's alcohol consumption so he can take advantage of her while she's unconscious.
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Odd Obsession / int_c4c9bb40	type	Inner Monologue
Odd Obsession / int_c4c9bb40	comment	Inner Monologue: A moment right before Kimora dies, in which his inner monologue is wondering why he was poisoned too.
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Odd Obsession / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
Odd Obsession / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: Toshiko shoots one at Ikuko and Kimora when she thinks, incorrectly, that she has poisoned them with the tea.
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Odd Obsession / int_f604f64b	type	Dude, She's Like in a Coma
Odd Obsession / int_f604f64b	comment	Dude, She's Like in a Coma: At the very least, Kenji is taking pictures of his wife in the nude while she's passed out. It's strongly implied that he actually rapes her while she's passed out.
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Odd Obsession / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Odd Obsession / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Dr. Kimora isn't really attracted to Toshiko, and while he does have the hots for her mom, his real motivation is to have Kenji's family set him up in private practice. When he finds out after Kenji's death that the Kenmochi household was flat broke, he's desperately wondering how to get out of the situation.
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Odd Obsession / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Odd Obsession / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Hara, the meek, elderly servant to the Kenmochi family, knows exactly what is going on and exactly what Ikuko is up to. After Kenji dies, she poisons Ikuko, Toshiko, and Kimora.
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