- Actors: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui, Meika Seri
- Directors: Nagisa Ôshima
- Writers: Nagisa Ôshima
- Producers: Anatole Dauman, Kôji Wakamatsu
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, PAL
- Language Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Fox Lorber
- DVD Release Date: 28 July 1998
- Run Time: 105 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6305049378
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 115,814 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
A remarkable story, told at a gentle pace, building through the layers of sexual obsession as the two principal characters, Kichi-zo and his lover, Sada, become embroiled in an erotic search for release from the everyday oppression of 1930's Japanese society. As the story approaches its violent and deeply sad conclusion (based on an actual murder case) they find themselves increasingly isolated from the expectations of family, lovers and peers and they both come to realise that emotional satisfaction and sexual fulfilment do not go hand in glove. The story is laced with comedy - the treatment of the attendant geisha for example and does well to create the feeling of life in a ryokan or Japanese Inn. The film gained notoriety for the explicitness of the in-your-face sex and serves perhaps as a object lesson in the differences between pornography and film-art.
87 of 91 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Yes, this is explicit, but if you're simply after pornography, you can get more bangs for your buck elsewhere: this isn't a slideshow of silicon-enhanced babes and improbably-endowed studs. It's an exploration of sexual passion; the thrill, the joy, the overwhelming power. With pornography you're watching geysers spurt. With this film, you're swimming in the sea, happily splashing about in the waves - then before you know it, you're looking at a tsunami hurtling towards you...
By the end you amy well be torn between wanting the type of relationship portrayed and never wanting sex again! The film takes us to that deep and scarey place inside ourselves that few acknowledge and even fewer ever visit.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The realm of the senses is a superb film that manages to show beauty in the most unexpected ways: gerontophilia, sexual obession, pornography and many more taboo subjects are treated in the film and conveyed with such good taste and elegance that one is left speechless at the end of the film. It is a pure visual spectacle with a great soundtrack and a good simple storyline. A film that I watch at least once a year.
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The filming was rather poor and the subjects were not good actors. unfortunately most of the time their bodies were covered up and the story line was almost non existent. Read more
Published 2 months ago by peter
"You've such pretty hands. Why hold that knife when you could hold...
Later, Sada (Eiko Matsuda) holds both...the knife and the severed penis of her dead lover, Ichizo (Tatsuya Fuji). Read more
Published 2 months ago by C. O. DeRiemer
Adult DVD
A very pleasant Adult DVD to view, had a story line to it and was easy to follow. The sciens were very explicit as was expected and enjoyable. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Robin Croll
Extremely good
Nagisa "Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence" Oshima's most notorious film culminates with a truly shocking ending, encapsulating the sheer force of self-destructive passion between Kichi... Read more
Published 16 months ago by R. J. Harvey
Some of the tenderest sex scenes you'll ever see.
Oshima has produced some great films - Boy, The Ceremony. These are great dramas about Japanese culture and convention. And then in 1976 came In the Realm of the Senses. Read more
Published 16 months ago by S. Hyde
Worth it.
The story line is really good. I had this DVD many years back but lost it. Finally got round to buying a second copy and it reminded me just how much I have missed watching... Read more
Published 20 months ago by pigapumbu
Beautiful and tragic...
Wow, it is so sad. I couldn't stop crying. It is undoubtedly a shock at first, being not at all used to seeing sex displayed so obviously on the screen. Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2007 by blamblamsam
NOT SIMPLY LEGAL PORN!!!!!
A very important piece of information that also needs to be added to these reviews, is that this story is completely true. Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2007 by Bluejam
I don't understand the other reviews
I have no problems with explicit sex-scenes in a well produced art-house film, but this is clearly porn (albeit a different cultural take on the genre), and as such it's pretty... Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2006
Explicit art
It was not, to be honest, one of the films in the world I have enjoyed the most. The Japanese fascination with pain is a bit odd to me. Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2004 by Eolake
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