In the Realm of the Senses
by Nagisa Oshima
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Actor: Aoi Nakajima, Eiko Matsuda, Meika Seri, Tatsuya Fuji, Yasuko MatsuiDirector: Nagisa Oshima
Cinematographer: Hideo Itoh
Writer: Nagisa Oshima
Editor: Keiichi Uraoka
Editor: Patrick Sauvion
Producer: Anatole Dauman
Producer: K?ji Wakamatsu
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-07-28
Audience Rating: NC-17
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of In the Realm of the Senses
Movie Review: Oshima Nagisa's Departed Spirit of Love...
Summary: 5 Stars
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Oshima Nagisa's Empire of Passion...
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The Japanese title of this film directly translated into English is rendered, The Departed Spirit of Love (Eros).
I saw this Cannes Palme d'Or winner at the theatre in San Francisco, 1978.
At that time it was certainly an avant garde art-film. There seems to be much confusion of this work, so to set the record straight:
The story takes place in c.1920s Japan somewhere not far from Tokyo. It involves an older rickshaw runner married to a sexy thirty-something woman. They have an older daughter and a toddler son.
Rickshaw man runs daily to Tokyo, and the daughter is sent to school there as well. (Here are issues of historical counter-fact: for in the film they live in an house a bit too nice, and there was little formal female education at that time; but this is fiction, so suspend disbelief.)
In steps soldier-boy--a younger man having finished his term of military service. Needless to say, younger man and older woman become lovers. The sex scenes are not graphic but highly erotic: (pubic shaving and cunnilingus were not so common on film then as now...)
The couple contrive to murder rickshaw man and dump his body in a dry well.
Later they are tormented by their crime and eventually denounced by the daughter. Under duress, the couple confess and are executed.
The film is shot in rich dark colours which capture the ambient atmosphere of early-Modern Japan.
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Summary of In the Realm of the Senses
Nagisa Oshima's sensational, 1976 film concerns a woman (Eiko Matsuda) whose obsessive sexual relationship with her husband (Tatsuya Fuji) crosses the line from passion into the territory of life and death. One of the most sexually explicit films ever to play in mainstream theaters (though it did run into legal trouble both in the U.S. and Japan), it has an air of palpable doom, suggesting that sex can be a doorway to suicide. Lest this sound like grunge-era noodling over dreams of self-destruction, be assured that the Kyoto-born Oshima (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) takes a somewhat formal, middle-aged perspective on the conjunction of various mysteries of existence. --Tom KeoghArt House & International DVD Video
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