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Presented for the first time completely uncut in the UK, world renowned director Nagisa Ôshima’s In The Realm Of The Senses is one of the most controversial films ever made. When it was first released in 1976, the film was banned in the US, given a limited release in the U.K. and is still censored in Japan. Unlike any film you have ever experienced, In The Realm Of The Senses is a masterpiece notorious for its graphic sexual content, scandalous subject matter and its unforgettable climax.
Based on one of the most shocking true stories to hit Japan, In The Realm Of The Senses tells the story of Sade Abe, a former prostitute working as a hotel maid in Tokyo in 1936. When Sade begins a torrid affair with the owner, they become completely infatuated with each other. Their increasingly experimental sexual encounters spiral into an all-consuming, obsessive and destructive love affair where even life is worth sacrificing.
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Based on one of the most shocking true stories to hit Japan, In The Realm Of The Senses tells the story of Sade Abe, a former prostitute working as a hotel maid in Tokyo in 1936. When Sade begins a torrid affair with the owner, they become completely infatuated with each other. Their increasingly experimental sexual encounters spiral into an all-consuming, obsessive and destructive love affair where even life is worth sacrificing.
EXTRAS:
- Once Upon A Time In The Realm Of Senses
- Recalling The Film: 2003 program featuring interviews with consulting producer Hayao Shibata, line producer Koji Wakamatsu, assistant Director Yoichi Sai and distributor Yoko Asakura.
- Sex In Japanese Cinema: Critical discussion filmed at Birbeck College by kind permission of the Centre of Media, Culture and Creative Practice.
- Deleted Scenes
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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
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.
89 of 94 people found the following review helpful
By Shivari
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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.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By blamblamsam
Format:DVD
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. But, well I mean we are all mostly no strangers to the sexual act. So after you get over the initial embarrassment, the film is very deeply touching.
The actors are extremely convincing, even taking into account the poker-faced, non-expression that the japanese seem to practise. You see them spiralling down, further and further into the danger of addiction, of it never being enough, always needing more, a heftier kick. A gigantic itch that gets worse the more you scratch. It is so terribly sad because you know they will destroy each other with their love and desire and there's nothing you, or they can do to stop it.
The actors are extremely convincing, even taking into account the poker-faced, non-expression that the japanese seem to practise. You see them spiralling down, further and further into the danger of addiction, of it never being enough, always needing more, a heftier kick. A gigantic itch that gets worse the more you scratch. It is so terribly sad because you know they will destroy each other with their love and desire and there's nothing you, or they can do to stop it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Misleading description
Extras only available on blu ray disc. I'm not buying a blu ray player just to watch them and condone the blu ray nonsense.
Published 4 months ago by Mr Viewer
5.0 out of 5 stars
beautiful thoughtful erotic tale
This is an extraordinary film - unabashed sexual intercourse between two lovers who are on fire for each other. So on fire that it becomes an unhealthy obsession. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Ms. P. J. O'CONNOR
1.0 out of 5 stars
Carry On Up The Clunge
There are some hilariously pompous reviews extolling virtues of this film, but what I saw was a shallow, repetitive and artistically barren mess. Read more
Published 7 months ago by BoatDrinks
4.0 out of 5 stars
uncut UK bluray
Excellent film that shocked the public and the censors in 1970s.
Cut for many years in the UK but now passed uncut which is surprising as there is a lot of explicit sex... Read more
Cut for many years in the UK but now passed uncut which is surprising as there is a lot of explicit sex... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Blood Freak
5.0 out of 5 stars
the Realm of the Senses
I was splendid.
I think that TV broadcasting is not possible when it is Japan
Finally, it is a story miserable
It was a good work
Though I think that a... Read more
I think that TV broadcasting is not possible when it is Japan
Finally, it is a story miserable
It was a good work
Though I think that a... Read more
Published 10 months ago by TAKESHI FUKAYA
5.0 out of 5 stars
A film is good when you can't stop thinking about it...
And when you buy more films from the director to see other films he has done. In the Realm of Senses is one of those. Does it have pornographic images? Yes! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Thorkell Agust Ottarsson
3.0 out of 5 stars
video review
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 14 months ago by peter
4.0 out of 5 stars
"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 14 months ago by C. O. DeRiemer
4.0 out of 5 stars
no extras on the DVD
As a collector the extras mentioned are of particular interest. However, they are not on the DVD disc of this double set. Read more
Published 17 months ago by pest
4.0 out of 5 stars
HARDCORE YES - PORN NO!
Difficult to rate this one, as it's not in the realm of greatness, whatever other of realm it might occupy. Read more
Published 17 months ago by H. L. Mason
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