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Realm of the Senses aka Ai no korîda [VHS] [1976]

Tatsuya Fuji (Actor), Eiko Matsuda (Actor), Nagisa Ôshima (Director) | Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over | Format: VHS Tape
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui, Meika Seri
  • Directors: Nagisa Ôshima
  • Writers: Nagisa Ôshima
  • Producers: Anatole Dauman
  • Format: Colour, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, PAL, Subtitled
  • Language: Japanese
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Nouveaux Pictures
  • VHS Release Date: 9 Oct 2000
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005421U
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 173,364 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Nagisa Oshima's notorious masterpeice tells the story of the obsessive affair between a young servant girl and her master which ended in 1936, when the girl was discovered wandering the streets with her dead lover's severed penis in her hand. One of the most controversial films of the last 30 years, 'In the Realm of the Senses' has become a regular fixture in censorship debates, and is presented here in an uncut, optically edited version.

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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The essence of sexual obsessiveness 21 April 2002
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.
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89 of 94 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterwork in sexuality 22 Nov 2003
By Shivari VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Some of the tenderest sex scenes you'll ever see. 30 Jan 2011
By S. Hyde
Format:DVD
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. It is sexually explicit in a way that we've never seen before in a mainstream film. That sexual openness is so beautiful and natural and desperately needed in our films. Especially in a cinema industry that finds fun and entertainment in violence in all its forms.
Oshima's film has ravishing camerawork with ever frame pierced with colour. However, I think that artistically he has dropped down a few notches from where he was. Realm of the Senses just has too much sex and not enough story. It felt to me like he was trying to challenge the censors by rubbing sex in their face. And then their's the ending which was just a touch too gory, better if it had been suggested a little more rather than shown.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and tragic... 14 Jun 2007
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.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars DIFFERENT AESTHETICS 14 Mar 2007
By Perdurabo
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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43 of 48 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars NOT SIMPLY LEGAL PORN!!!!! 22 Mar 2007
By Bluejam
Format:DVD
A very important piece of information that also needs to be added to these reviews, is that this story is completely true.

It happened in 1936, at a time when such actions becoming public would normally shock any society. Abe however was treated with mercy (given her fragile mental state), and after the initial shock died down, she became quite a female hero in her country.

I'm frankly appalled by some reviews I've read in other places that compare this to legal porn and nothing more, as they are totally missing the point of it!

Even if you had never seen any other film in your life, you could see the technical and emotional effort that goes into making a film like this compared to "cheap porn".

In fact, the two lead actors were quite negatively affected emotionally and physically, (yes, they really did begin to waste away like that, they were mentally damaged by the experience, which proves the devotion they had to portraying their characters well).

You cannot tell a true story without showing events that really happened, so the sex scenes you see, (which were not faked by the way...well, apart from the asphyxiation obviously) were necessary to show the depth of the obsession that had formed between the couple. Unlike films like 9 Songs, which include such things, and then shout about the "realness" of the pointless sex scenes, just to get attention for their otherwise cowardly, artless film.

Ai No Corrida (In The Realm Of The Senses...how it's known in Japan, and how you may find it written on the DVD case) is beautifully shot, the music is perfect and unobtrusive, the actors genuinely brave and the fact that the story is true makes the things you see even more touching.... Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
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 5 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 6 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 8 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
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
Published 11 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 13 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 15 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 15 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 18 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 18 months ago by H. L. Mason
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