In the Realm of the Senses

Starring: Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji Director: Nagisa Oshima Dvd Release: 28th July, 1998 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Colour, Full Screen, NTSC, Region 0 Encoding Subtitled In: English

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In the Realm of the Senses is a Japanese film from 1976 directed by Nagisa Oshima. The film is a fictional & extraordinarily sexually explicit treatment of a true story from the 1930s in Japan, the Abe Sada story. It garnered great controversy during its release; while it was intended for mainstream release, it contains scenes of unfaked sexual activity between the actors. Tokyo, 1936. Abe Sada is a former prostitute who now works as a maid in a hotel. She meets the hotels owner, the sexually-omnivorous Ishida & the two begin to have an intense affair that consists of little other than sexual experiments, drinking & various self-indulgences. Abes possessiveness & obsessive behavior with Ishida grows to the point that she threatens to kill him if he so much as looks at another woman. Their mutual obsession escalates to the point where he finds he is most excited by being strangled during lovemaking & he soon gives her permission to kill him in this fashion. She then severs his genitals & writes Sada & Kichi, now one in blood on his chest.

Yes, this is explicit, but if youre simply after pornography, you can get more bangs for your buck elsewhere: this isnt a slideshow of silicon-enhanced babes & improbably-endowed studs. Its an exploration of sexual passion; the thrill, the joy, the overwhelming power. With pornography youre watching geysers spurt. With this film, youre swimming in the sea, happily splashing about in the waves - then before you know it, youre looking at a tsunami hurtling towards you...

By the end you amy well be torn between wanting the type of relationship portrayed & never wanting sex again! The film takes us to that deep & scarey place inside ourselves that few acknowledge & even fewer ever visit.

Nagisa Oshima is a famous Japanese director. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku Ltd & quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature A Street of Love & Hope in 1959. Oshima, born in Kyoto, is most famed for his provocative 1976 film Ai no korida, a film based on a true story of fatal sexual obsession in 1930s Japan. Oshima, a prolific critic of censorship & his contemporary Akira Kurosawa s humanism, was determined that the film should feature hardcore pornography & thus the films undeveloped film cans had to be transported to France to be developed & an uncensored version of the movie is still unavailable in Japan. In his 1978 companion film to Ai no corrida, Ai no borei, Oshima took a more restrained approach to depicting the sexual passions of the two lovers driven to murder & the film won the 1978 Cannes Film Festival award for best director. In 1996 Oshima suffered a stroke, but he returned to directing in 1999 with the period piece Taboo. Merry Christmas, Mr.

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