Like his characters, Oshima is determined to explore and transgress sexual boundaries, if they even exist, by posing a challenge to conventional morality. [Blu-ray]
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
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Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 16
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: In 1936, in the midst of rising Japanese militarism, a former prostitute, Sada, goes to work as a maid in a brothel. The house's handsome owner, Kichizo, soon begins to court her, and Sada eagerly... In 1936, in the midst of rising Japanese militarism, a former prostitute, Sada, goes to work as a maid in a brothel. The house's handsome owner, Kichizo, soon begins to court her, and Sada eagerly returns his attentions. Their subsequent affair and constant lovemaking grow more and more intense, and their sexual obsession threatens to destroy them both. Nagisa Oshima's long-awaited erotic Japanese masterpiece (initially banned from the New York Film Festival in 1976) is finally available. Contains highly explicit content, recommended for adult audiences only. [More]
Starring: Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji
Starring: Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Release:
Apr 28, 2009
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Letterbox
- Widescreen - 1.66
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono - Japanese
- Subtitles - English
Additional Release Material:
- Deleted Scenes: Deleted Scenes
- Audio Commentary: Tony Rayns, Film Scholar
- Trailers: U.S. Trailer
Interviews:
- 1. Nagisa Oshima, Director - 1976
- 2. Tatsuya Fuji, Actor
- 3. Fuji Matsuda, Actor
- 4. Eiko Matsuda,
- 5. Hayao Shibata, Consulting Producer
- 6. Koji Wakamatsu, Line Producer
- 7. Yoichi Sai, Assistant Director
- 8. Yoko Asakura, Film Distributor
Additional Products:
- Booklet: Essay - Donald Richie, Film Scholar / Oshima Interview
Reviews for In the Realm of the Senses
quickly becomes as monotonous as bluenoses accuse it of being prurient
To paraphrase a crack from Pauline Kael: light the incense, perverts.
Baring much more than bodies, Oshima delves deeply into subconscious carnal desires under the influence of society, and the eternal human contradictions between liberating sexual impulses and erotic enslavement.
At best it's a thinking person's XXX flick; at worst it's as repetitive as a porn video.
In her essay, “A Theory on Female Sexuality” (1966), American psychiatrist Mary Jane Sherfey noted that “the strength of the [sex] drive determines the force required to suppress it.”
It is a task to measure the film’s aesthetics, as it is secondary to frequent sex – shown in such patient detail that its reality would never be questioned.
The majority of what we are made to watch is far from enlightening, entertaining, or erotic.
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May 03, 2009:
Baring much more than bodies, Oshima delves deeply into subconscious carnal desires under the influence of society, and the eternal human contradictions between liberating sexual impulses and erotic enslavement. ![]()
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July 09, 2007:
Baring much more than bodies, Oshima delves deeply into subconscious carnal desires under the influence of society, and the eternal human contradictions between liberating sexual impulses and erotic enslavement. ![]()
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March 24, 2001:
Oshima, poses with In The Realm Of The Senses the philosophically seductive question: Does a form of government dictate the way people have sex? ![]()
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