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]
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06/28/09
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... [More]
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Reviews for In the Realm of the Senses
quickly becomes as monotonous as bluenoses accuse it of being prurient
05/11/09
To paraphrase a crack from Pauline Kael: light the incense, perverts.
04/27/09
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.
04/12/09
It's more sensational than it is artistically interesting.
06/27/08
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06/16/08
Top CriticAt best it's a thinking person's XXX flick; at worst it's as repetitive as a porn video.
04/09/07
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02/09/06
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01/06/06
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08/28/05
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07/25/05
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05/09/05
Top CriticNo review available.
07/30/04
Oshima's extraordinary tale of sexual obsession remains shocking 30 years later.
03/17/04
No review available.
10/10/03
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.”
05/08/03
No review available.
12/16/02
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.
08/15/02
The majority of what we are made to watch is far from enlightening, entertaining, or erotic.
03/05/02
The sex doesn't seem to be gratuitous.
12/23/01
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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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