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
Audio: English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Movie Reviews of In the Realm of the Senses
Movie Review: It is one of the most gripping films to have ever handled sexual obsession...
Summary: 3 Stars
"In the realm of Senses" is so wonderfully plotted and expertly acted that it almost has a dream-like effect... It's an erotic fantasy turned nightmare... It is the story of a sexual relationship between a young Japanese couple... At first lustful and erotic, they can't get enough... However, their experiments in sensationalism end in tragedy...
The film is flavored with strange yet genuinely humorous moments... For example, an older lady chance upon the lovers, and--for the fun of it--the young man initiates a m?nage ? trois... The incident proves to be so exhilarating that the old woman dies from exhaustion... The scene is played with such vivacity and intensity that--despite the fatal outcome--it does have a strange humorous overtone to it...
Director Nagisa Oshima developed with great care all the minor details of this affair without ever becoming overbearing or intending to teach...
Summary of In the Realm of the Senses
Banned around the world, Nagisa Oshima's extraordinary tale of sexual obsession remains equally shocking over 30 years later. Daring to blend hard-core sex with a complex narrative, this explicit study of love and death was so controversial in Japan that cans of film were smuggled to France to be processed. Set in 1936, Oshima's erotic masterpiece tells the story of Sada (Eiko Matsuda), a beautiful young geisha who draws the attention of the handsome Kichizo (Tatsuya Fuji), a brothel owner's arrogant, sexually prodigious husband. Oblivious to a brutal war unfolding around them, the couple's initial flirtation soon turns to all-consuming passion, a frenzied and fatal love-making rite.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 Keogh
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