the movie be an adaptation of a japanese story by the respect author yukio mishima . it simply doesn not make the transition into a credible story about brit and american . the story move sluggishly and especially the part where mile and kristofferson be separate and the director fill in with the cliched shot of a ship prow cut through the wave and and the little route line fill in on the map and while their letter be hear in overvoice . the film move so languidly that i even fast forward through the sex and masturbation scene which and although long and be not really either passionate or erotic . the film do achieve a measure of notoriety when kristofferson then wife divorce him for extra curricular activity with miss mile during the filming . i guess they enjoy the sex scene and but it isn not quite the same for a viewer . there be no character to hang on to . the sexually frustrated widow be unlikeable and the little kid be detestable . kristofferson be amiable enough and but he just doesn not have the act skill to bring much to the role and although perhaps we do not really want get too involve with him and consider his ultimate fate . a for the little kid and well and he kinda fall in with a bad crowd after his dad dy and and they help him plot some evil against the man who enter his mum life . now this be a really bad crowd . they do not just shoplift and smoke dope and nosireebib . they slip a mickey to a cat and vivisect it . this be show in gory detail . but of course and this be only practice so they can do the same thing to kristofferson . so the movie mostly move slowly and with no character to relate to and and when something do happen it be unrelentingly morbid . the end be about as unsatisfying a any movie you will ever see . this all might have make some sense if the japanese locale and cultural context have be retain . a it stand and it be just abysmal .